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Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber Of Fleet Street (BD)

Johnny Depp and Tim Burton join forces again in a big-screen adaptation of Stephen Sondheim's award-winning musical thriller "Sweene y Todd." De pp stars in the title role as a man unjustly sent to prison who vows rev enge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating conse quences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to re open his barber shop, Sweeney Todd bec omes the Demon Barber of Fleet St reet who "shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again." Joining Depp i s Helena Bonham Carter as Mrs. Lovett, Sween ey's amorous accomplice, who creates diabolical meat pies. The cast also includes Alan R ickman, who portrays the evil Judge Turpin, who sends S weeney to prison and Timothy Spall as the Judge's wicked associate Beadl e Bam ford and Sacha Baron Cohen is a rival barber, the flamboyant Signo r Adolfo Pirelli.