Additional information for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, which has a domestic theatrical release set for December 21, 2007. The film is being distributed by Paramount Pictures and has been rated R for graphic bloody violence. Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street has a total running time of 116 minutes.
18
Ireland
18
UK
18A
Canada
MA
Australia
K-18
Finland
18
South Korea
M18
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16
Germany
R-15
Japan
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15
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-12
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14
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15
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116 min
Sweeney Todd
USA
Sweeney Todd, le diabolique barbier de Fleet Street
Canada: French title
Svini Tod: Pakleni berberin iz ulice flit
Serbia
Sweeney Todd
Germany
Sweeney Todd
Norway
Sweeney Todd - Ðavolji brijac Fleet Streeta
Croatia
Sweeney Todd - A Fleet Street démoni borbélya
Hungary
Sweeney Todd - Demonbarbereren fra Fleet Street
Norway
Sweeney Todd - Demoniczny golibroda z Fleet Street
Poland
Sweeney Todd - Der teuflische Barbier aus der Fleet Street
Germany
Sweeney Todd - El barbero demoníaco de la calle Fleet
Venezuela
Sweeney Todd - El barbero diabólico de la calle Fleet
Spain
Sweeney Todd - O Barbeiro Demoníaco da Rua Fleet
Brazil
Sweeney Todd - O Terrível Barbeiro de Fleet Street
Portugal
Sweeney Todd - O fonikos koureas tis odou Fleet
Greece
Sweeney Todd: Den Djævelske Barber fra Fleet Street
Denmark
Sweeney Todd: El barbero demoníaco de la calle Fleet
Argentina
Sweeney Todd: Fleet Sokaginin Seytan Berberi
Turkey: Turkish title
Sweeney Todd: Fleet Streeti deemonlik habemeajaja
Estonia
Sweeney Todd: Fleet Streetin paholaisparturi
Finland
Sweeney Todd: Il diabolico barbiere di Fleet Street
Italy
December 3, 2007
USA
December 21, 2007
Canada
December 21, 2007
USA
December 25, 2007
Japan
January 7, 2008
Japan
January 10, 2008
UK
January 16, 2008
Philippines
January 17, 2008
South Korea
January 19, 2008
Japan
January 23, 2008
France
January 24, 2008
Australia
January 24, 2008
Malaysia
January 24, 2008
Sweden
January 25, 2008
New Zealand
January 25, 2008
UK
January 31, 2008
Hong Kong
January 31, 2008
Portugal
January 31, 2008
Singapore
January 31, 2008
Thailand
February 1, 2008
Denmark
February 1, 2008
Iceland
February 1, 2008
Romania
February 7, 2008
Argentina
February 7, 2008
Chile
February 7, 2008
Czech Republic
February 7, 2008
Greece
February 7, 2008
Netherlands
February 7, 2008
Slovakia
February 8, 2008
Brazil
February 8, 2008
Bulgaria
February 8, 2008
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February 8, 2008
Mexico
February 8, 2008
Panama
February 8, 2008
Uruguay
February 13, 2008
Belgium
February 14, 2008
Argentina
February 14, 2008
Bolivia
February 14, 2008
Israel
February 15, 2008
Estonia
February 15, 2008
Finland
February 15, 2008
Spain
February 15, 2008
Sweden
February 15, 2008
Turkey
February 15, 2008
Venezuela
February 21, 2008
Croatia
February 21, 2008
Germany
February 21, 2008
Hungary
February 21, 2008
Peru
February 21, 2008
Switzerland
February 22, 2008
Italy
February 22, 2008
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February 22, 2008
Norway
February 22, 2008
Poland
February 22, 2008
South Africa
February 28, 2008
Kuwait
February 28, 2008
Lebanon
February 29, 2008
Finland
April 10, 2008
Russia
May 14, 2008
Egypt
Never Forget. Never Forgive.
Beware! Sweeney Todd is coming. This Christmas.
Sweeney Todd. He never forgets and he never forgives.
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Benjamin Barker (Johnny Depp), a skilled barber, is falsely charged and sentenced to a life of hard labor in Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin (Alan Rickman), who lusts after Barker's wife Lucy (Laura Michelle Kelly). Now under the assumed name "Sweeney Todd", Barker returns to London with sailor Anthony Hope (Jamie Campbell Bower). At his old Fleet Street lodgings above Mrs. Nellie Lovett's (Helena Bonham Carter) pie shop, he discovers that Lucy, having been raped by Turpin, has poisoned herself, and his teenage daughter Johanna (Jayne Wisener) is now Turpin's ward, and like her mother before her, is the object of his unwanted affections. Todd vows revenge, reopening his barber shop in the upstairs flat.
While roaming London, Anthony spots Johanna and falls in love with her, but is ejected from the Judge's house by Turpin and his associate, Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall). Far from being discouraged, the sailor becomes determined that the pair will elope. Meanwhile, Todd, during a visit to the marketplace, denounces a fraudulent hair tonic by faux-Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), and later humiliates him in a public shaving contest. Pirelli and his boy assistant Toby (Ed Sanders) visit Todd's barbershop; Lovett keeps Toby occupied downstairs, while in the parlor Pirelli reveals himself to be Todd's former assistant and attempts to blackmail him into paying him half of Todd's earnings or he will reveal Todd's real identity. Instead of giving Pirelli a pay off Todd murders him to protect the secret of his true identity.
Turpin, intending to propose to Johanna, pays a visit to Todd's parlor to groom himself into Johanna's ideal suitor. Recognizing his tormentor, Todd relaxes the judge while preparing to slit his throat. Before he can do so, they are interrupted by Anthony, who, unaware of Turpin's presence, bursts in and reveals his plan to elope with Johanna. Turpin leaves enraged, vowing to never return. His plan thwarted, Todd has an epiphany, and decides to vent his murderous rage upon his customers while waiting for another chance to kill Turpin. He is indiscriminate about his victims he believes that he is punishing the corrupt aristocracy for their exploitation of those below them and, at the same time, saving the lower classes from their misery.
Lovett becomes his willing accomplice, suggesting they dispose of the bodies by baking them into pies to improve her business. Todd enthusiastically agrees, and rigs his barber's chair with a pedal-operated mechanism, which deposits his victims through a trap door into Lovett's bakehouse. As the weeks pass, Todd's murders accumulate (although he is shown sparing a man who brings his wife and daughter). Meanwhile, Anthony begins to search for Johanna, who was sent by Turpin to Fogg's insane asylum as punishment for her refusal to marry him.
The barbering and pie-making business prospers financially, and Lovett takes in young Toby. Anthony finally discovers Johanna's whereabouts and, following Todd's plan, poses as a wig-maker's apprentice, allowing him access to the asylum to put a rescue plan into action. As Anthony is given a short tour of the asylum, he becomes aware that his guide has been using the female inmates for his own profit; after freeing Johanna, he chooses to lock the guide in with the inmates, who fall upon him with murderous intent. Todd's motive for assisting is to lure Turpin back to the barber shop, and he sends Toby to the courthouse to let the judge know where he will find Johanna. Toby has become wary of Todd, and when he returns he tells Lovett of his distrust, unaware of her complicity in his crimes. He promises to protect Mrs. Lovett, whom he has come to love as a surrogate mother. Beadle Bamford arrives at the barber shop and is murdered by Todd, and Lovett informs Todd of Toby's suspicions. The pair search for Toby, whom Lovett has locked in the basement bakehouse to keep him out of the way. He is nowhere to be found, having hidden in the sewers after seeing the Beadle's body drop into the room from the trapdoor above, as well as finding fingers in a pie, clothing and body parts in a fireplace. Meanwhile, Anthony brings a disguised Johanna to the shop, where she hides herself in a trunk in a corner of the room.
An insane beggar woman who has been pestering Todd, Lovett and Anthony throughout the film now makes her way into the shop. As Todd enters, she claims that she recognizes him. Just then, Turpin's voice is heard. Todd quickly slits the beggar woman's throat and deposits her body through the trap door. As Turpin enters, Todd lies to him that Johanna had repented, and offers a free shave. Todd then reveals his true identity and stabs Turpin in the neck numerous times before finally slitting his throat and dropping him through the trap door. As Johanna peeks out of the trunk, Todd spots her and prepares to slit her throat as well, not recognizing her as his daughter. A scream from Lovett diverts him to the basement, where she tells him that Turpin had still been alive and tried to grab at her dress before bleeding to death. Viewing the corpses in the light of the bakehouse fire, Todd discovers that the beggar woman was his wife, Lucy, whom he had believed to be dead based on Lovett's account of the poisoning. Todd realizes that Lovett knew Lucy was alive. Lovett points out that she never said Lucy died; and, after attempting to convince Sweeney that she misled him for his own good, she confesses she lied because she loves him and would be a better wife than Lucy ever was. Todd forgive's her, waltzing maniacally with her around the bakehouse before hurling her into the open oven. He watches her burn as he shuts the oven door and locks it. He returns to Lucy and cradles her dead body as Toby emerges from the sewer, picks up the discarded razor, sneaks up behind the barber, and slits Todd's throat (Todd appears to hear him, but he simply raises his neck, and allows Toby to kill him.) The film ends with Todd bleeding over his dead wife as Toby walks away.
Tim Burton
Director(s)
John Logan
Stephen Sondheim
Hugh Wheeler
Christopher Bond
Writer(s)
Brenda Berrisford
associate producer
Katterli Frauenfelder
co-producer
Derek Frey
associate producer
John Logan
producer
Laurie MacDonald
producer
Patrick McCormick
executive producer
Walter F. Parkes
producer (as Walter Parkes)
Richard D. Zanuck
producer
Producer(s)
Composer(s)
Sweeney Todd
Johnny Depp
Mrs. Lovett
Helena Bonham Carter
Judge Turpin
Alan Rickman
Beadle
Timothy Spall
Pirelli
Sacha Baron Cohen
Anthony
Jamie Campbell Bower
Beggar Woman
Laura Michelle Kelly
Johanna
Jayne Wisener
Toby (as Edward Sanders)
Ed Sanders
Baby Johanna
Gracie May
Baby Johanna
Ava May
Baby Johanna
Gabriella Freeman
Policeman
Jody Halse
Policeman
Aron Paramor
Policeman
Lee Whitlock
Pirelli & Todd Customer
Nick Haverson
Pirelli & Todd Customer
Mandy Holliday
Elixir Sniffing Customer
Colin Higgins
Gasping Man
John Paton
Contest Bald Man
Graham Bohea
Boy Prisoner
Daniel Lusardi
Man in Need of a Shave
Ian McLarnon
Shave Customer Slit Throat
Phill Woodfine
Happy Customer
Toby Hefferman
Happy Customer's Wife
Charlotte Child
Happy Customer's Child
Kira Woolman
Jolly Friend
Helen Slaymaker
Jolly Friend
Jess Murphy
Jolly Friend
Nicholas Hewetson
Jolly Friend
Adam Roach
Jolly Friend
Marcus Cunningham
Minister
David McKail
Mr. Fogg
Philip Philmar
Inmate
Gemma Grey
Inmate
Sue Maund
Inmate
Emma Hewitt
Barber Customer
Buck Holland
Fleet Street Dandy
Peter Mountain
Mr. Lovett
Harry Taylor
Pie Customer
Stephen Ashfield
While roaming London, Anthony spots Johanna and falls in love with her, but is ejected from the Judge's house by Turpin and his associate, Beadle Bamford (Timothy Spall). Far from being discouraged, the sailor becomes determined that the pair will elope. Meanwhile, Todd, during a visit to the marketplace, denounces a fraudulent hair tonic by faux-Italian barber Adolfo Pirelli (Sacha Baron Cohen), and later humiliates him in a public shaving contest. Pirelli and his boy assistant Toby (Ed Sanders) visit Todd's barbershop; Lovett keeps Toby occupied downstairs, while in the parlor Pirelli reveals himself to be Todd's former assistant and attempts to blackmail him into paying him half of Todd's earnings or he will reveal Todd's real identity. Instead of giving Pirelli a pay off Todd murders him to protect the secret of his true identity.
Turpin, intending to propose to Johanna, pays a visit to Todd's parlor to groom himself into Johanna's ideal suitor. Recognizing his tormentor, Todd relaxes the judge while preparing to slit his throat. Before he can do so, they are interrupted by Anthony, who, unaware of Turpin's presence, bursts in and reveals his plan to elope with Johanna. Turpin leaves enraged, vowing to never return. His plan thwarted, Todd has an epiphany, and decides to vent his murderous rage upon his customers while waiting for another chance to kill Turpin. He is indiscriminate about his victims he believes that he is punishing the corrupt aristocracy for their exploitation of those below them and, at the same time, saving the lower classes from their misery.
Lovett becomes his willing accomplice, suggesting they dispose of the bodies by baking them into pies to improve her business. Todd enthusiastically agrees, and rigs his barber's chair with a pedal-operated mechanism, which deposits his victims through a trap door into Lovett's bakehouse. As the weeks pass, Todd's murders accumulate (although he is shown sparing a man who brings his wife and daughter). Meanwhile, Anthony begins to search for Johanna, who was sent by Turpin to Fogg's insane asylum as punishment for her refusal to marry him.
The barbering and pie-making business prospers financially, and Lovett takes in young Toby. Anthony finally discovers Johanna's whereabouts and, following Todd's plan, poses as a wig-maker's apprentice, allowing him access to the asylum to put a rescue plan into action. As Anthony is given a short tour of the asylum, he becomes aware that his guide has been using the female inmates for his own profit; after freeing Johanna, he chooses to lock the guide in with the inmates, who fall upon him with murderous intent. Todd's motive for assisting is to lure Turpin back to the barber shop, and he sends Toby to the courthouse to let the judge know where he will find Johanna. Toby has become wary of Todd, and when he returns he tells Lovett of his distrust, unaware of her complicity in his crimes. He promises to protect Mrs. Lovett, whom he has come to love as a surrogate mother. Beadle Bamford arrives at the barber shop and is murdered by Todd, and Lovett informs Todd of Toby's suspicions. The pair search for Toby, whom Lovett has locked in the basement bakehouse to keep him out of the way. He is nowhere to be found, having hidden in the sewers after seeing the Beadle's body drop into the room from the trapdoor above, as well as finding fingers in a pie, clothing and body parts in a fireplace. Meanwhile, Anthony brings a disguised Johanna to the shop, where she hides herself in a trunk in a corner of the room.
An insane beggar woman who has been pestering Todd, Lovett and Anthony throughout the film now makes her way into the shop. As Todd enters, she claims that she recognizes him. Just then, Turpin's voice is heard. Todd quickly slits the beggar woman's throat and deposits her body through the trap door. As Turpin enters, Todd lies to him that Johanna had repented, and offers a free shave. Todd then reveals his true identity and stabs Turpin in the neck numerous times before finally slitting his throat and dropping him through the trap door. As Johanna peeks out of the trunk, Todd spots her and prepares to slit her throat as well, not recognizing her as his daughter. A scream from Lovett diverts him to the basement, where she tells him that Turpin had still been alive and tried to grab at her dress before bleeding to death. Viewing the corpses in the light of the bakehouse fire, Todd discovers that the beggar woman was his wife, Lucy, whom he had believed to be dead based on Lovett's account of the poisoning. Todd realizes that Lovett knew Lucy was alive. Lovett points out that she never said Lucy died; and, after attempting to convince Sweeney that she misled him for his own good, she confesses she lied because she loves him and would be a better wife than Lucy ever was. Todd forgive's her, waltzing maniacally with her around the bakehouse before hurling her into the open oven. He watches her burn as he shuts the oven door and locks it. He returns to Lucy and cradles her dead body as Toby emerges from the sewer, picks up the discarded razor, sneaks up behind the barber, and slits Todd's throat (Todd appears to hear him, but he simply raises his neck, and allows Toby to kill him.) The film ends with Todd bleeding over his dead wife as Toby walks away.
Director(s)
Stephen Sondheim
Hugh Wheeler
Christopher Bond
Writer(s)
associate producer
Katterli Frauenfelder
co-producer
Derek Frey
associate producer
John Logan
producer
Laurie MacDonald
producer
Patrick McCormick
executive producer
Walter F. Parkes
producer (as Walter Parkes)
Richard D. Zanuck
producer
Producer(s)
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