Johnny Depp and director Tim Burton reteam following their worldwide blockbuster Charlie and the Chocolate Factory to bring a Broadway masterpiece to the big screen--Stephen Sondheim's Sweeney Todd The Demon Barber of Fleet Street. Based on true events?? this darkly comic musical tale tells the story of London barber Benjamin Barker (Depp--Finding Neverland?? Charlie and the Chocolate Factory) unjustly sentenced to a prison term in Australia by a judge who covets Barker's wife. When Barker returns to England?? he takes up his former profession?? using the name Sweeney Todd--and slits the throats of customers who come into his shop. Now?? while Sweeney confronts the problem of accumulating corpses?? a local businesswoman finds a novel and enterprising use for the bodies . . . a bloody business that profits them both.
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