Trailer - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007

About the movie Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street 2007
Tim Burton's macabre adaptation of the celebrated Broadway musical, "Sweeney Todd," is a visual masterpiece. In 2025, it's available on streaming platforms like HBO Max and often for digital rental/purchase on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV. The film has aged exceptionally well, with its gothic aesthetic and grim atmosphere proving timeless. The actors' performances and Stephen Sondheim's music remain equally captivating. Its cultural impact lies in successfully bringing a complex theatrical musical to the big screen with critical and commercial success, solidifying the chemistry between Burton, Depp, and Carter. Johnny Depp won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy. A notable curiosity is that all the actors recorded their vocals live during filming to capture the emotional authenticity of the musical moments.

Tim Burton's macabre adaptation of the celebrated Broadway musical, "Sweeney Todd," is a visual masterpiece. In 2025, it's available on streaming platforms like HBO Max and often for digital rental/purchase on Amazon Prime Video or Apple TV. The film has aged exceptionally well, with its gothic aesthetic and grim atmosphere proving timeless. The actors' performances and Stephen Sondheim's music remain equally captivating. Its cultural impact lies in successfully bringing a complex theatrical musical to the big screen with critical and commercial success, solidifying the chemistry between Burton, Depp, and Carter. Johnny Depp won a Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical or Comedy.

A notable curiosity is that all the actors recorded their vocals live during filming to capture the emotional authenticity of the musical moments. It's interesting to note the connection to "Wonka" (2023). While "Wonka" is a prequel to "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory," the 2005 adaptation of "Charlie and the Chocolate Factory" was also directed by Tim Burton and starred Johnny Depp as Willy Wonka. This creates a fascinating lineage, showcasing Burton and Depp's shared history of bringing eccentric, musically inclined characters to life across different cinematic worlds, with "Wonka" now offering an origin story to a character famously portrayed by the same director-actor duo behind "Sweeney Todd."

Cast: Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter
Director: Tim Burton

Sinopsis: Based on the hit Broadway musical which tells 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.

Trailer - Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street



Plot
In 1846, Benjamin Barker, a barber, arrives in London, accompanied by the young sailor Anthony Hope. A flashback reveals that fifteen years earlier, Barker was falsely convicted and exiled to Australia by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who lusted after Barker's wife Lucy. Barker adopts the alias "Sweeney Todd" and returns to his old shop on Fleet Street, situated above Nellie Lovett's meat pie shop. Recognizing Barker, Lovett tells him that once he was exiled, Turpin raped Lucy and drove her to suicide before adopting the couple's daughter, Johanna, as his ward. Todd vows revenge and re-opens his barbershop after Mrs. Lovett, who loves him unrequitedly, presents him with his old straight razors. Wandering the streets where he encounters a beggar woman, Anthony becomes enamored with Johanna after seeing her sing by a window above the street, but is caught by Turpin and driven away by his henchman, Beadle Bamford.

Rival barber and snake oil salesman Adolfo Pirelli is publicly humiliated by Todd in front of Bamford, but recognizes Todd by his razors and reveals himself as his former apprentice. He attempts to blackmail Todd, who flies into a rage and kills him. Lovett is shocked but accepts Todd's justifications, having grown emotionally attached to Pirelli's downtrodden assistant Toby Ragg, whom she adopts as a son.

Intent on marrying Johanna, Turpin visits Todd's shop for a grooming at Bamford's recommendation. Before Todd can kill Turpin, Anthony bursts in and inadvertently reveals his plan to elope with Johanna. Turpin flies into a rage, storms out, and has Johanna committed to a madhouse. Believing Johanna to be lost to him forever, Todd vows to kill as many people as he can out of revenge and seduces Mrs. Lovett into being his partner in crime. She gets the idea to bake Todd's victims into pies, and Todd rigs his barber chair with a trapdoor to drop his victims' bodies into her bakehouse, while Anthony continues to search for Johanna.

With both their businesses prospering, Mrs. Lovett tells an uninterested Todd of her hopes to marry him and retire while the unnamed beggar woman begins spreading rumors about the foul-smelling smoke rising from the shop chimneys. Anthony rescues Johanna, planning on hiding her in Todd's shop. However, Todd sends Turpin a letter about the ploy to lure him back to the shop. Toby becomes wary of Todd and tells Mrs. Lovett of his suspicions, vowing to protect her. She assuages him but is forced to lock him in the basement after he discovers Pirelli's purse. Bamford arrives to inspect reports of the stink from her chimney, but is tricked and murdered by Todd. Mrs. Lovett informs Todd of Toby's suspicions, and the pair search for the boy after he escapes into the sewers. Meanwhile, Anthony brings Johanna, disguised as a boy, to the shop, and has her wait there while he leaves to find Todd.

The beggar woman enters the shop looking for Bamford, and Johanna hides in the trunk. The woman recognizes Todd, but upon hearing Turpin coming, Todd kills her and sends her through the trapdoor. Todd explains to Turpin that Johanna had repented and is coming to him, offering a free shave in the meantime. Todd reveals himself as Benjamin Barker, before slashing Turpin's throat and dropping him into the bakehouse.

Todd discovers Johanna but does not recognize her, preparing to kill her as well. The dying Turpin grabs at Mrs. Lovett's dress, causing her to scream and distract Todd; he allows Johanna to flee the shop and hurries to the bakehouse. When he recognizes the beggar woman as his wife Lucy, he realizes that Mrs. Lovett lied about her death and kills her by throwing her into the oven. Toby reappears and slits Todd's throat with his own razor as he mourns over the body of his dead wife.

Crime / Musical / Thriller

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