From visionary filmmaker Tim Burton (Batman, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) and starring Academy Award® and Golden Globe nominee Johnny Depp (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy) comes the new dramatic thriller, Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, a compelling and original vision based on the award-winning musical sensation by legendary lyricist and composer Stephen Sondheim.Depp stars as Benjamin Barker, a man unjustly imprisoned for 15 years on the other side of the world, who escapes back to London with a vow of revenge, opposite Helena Bonham Carter as his obsessively devoted accomplice, Mrs. Nellie Lovett.Adopting the guise of Sweeney Todd, Barker returns to his old barber shop above Mrs. Lovetts pie-making premises, and sets his sights on Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman) who, with help from his nefarious henchman Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall), shipped him off on a trumped-up charge in order to steal his wife, Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly), and his baby daughter from him.Mrs. Lovett tells Todd that his wife poisoned herself after Judge Turpin took advantage of her. But when a rival barber, the flamboyant Italian Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), threatens to expose Sweeneys real identity, Todd kills him by cutting his throat. Not knowing what to do with the body, Mrs. Lovett sees this crisis as a potential solution to her ailing business and suggests using human flesh as the filling for her pies.Sweeney discovers that the Judge has turned his amorous affections towards Johanna (Jayne Wisener), Sweeneys now teenaged daughter, who has become Turpins ward.
Imprisoned in his house, Johanna is noticed one day by Anthony (Jamie Campbell Bower), the young sailor who rescued Sweeney from the sea.
Hopelessly in love, Anthony vows to rescue Johanna and marry her himself.
Meanwhile, Mrs. Lovetts pies soon become the talk of London, and as business booms, she dreams of respectability and a life at the seaside with Sweeney as her husband and her young charge, Pirellis former assistant Toby (Edward Sanders), alongside as her adopted son.
But Sweeney has only revenge on his mind to the detriment of anyone or anything else.
Starring: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, Alan Rickman, Timothy Spall and Sacha Baron Cohen.
In Cinemas 25th January 2008
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