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.
In the Victorian London, the barber Benjamin Barker is married to the gorgeous Lucy and they have a lovely child, Johanna. The beauty of Lucy attracts the attention of the corrupt Judge Turpin, who falsely accuses the barber of a crime that he did not commit and abuses Lucy later after gaining custody of her. After fifteen years in exile, Benjamin returns to London under the new identity of Sweeney Todd, seeking revenge against Turpin. He meets the widow Mrs. Lovett who is the owner of a meat pie shop who tells him that Lucy swallowed arsenic many years ago, and Turpin assigned himself tutor of Johanna. He opens a barber shop above her store, initiating a crime rampage against those who made him suffer and lose his beloved family.
Written by Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Voted #490 on Empire magazine's 500 Greatest Movies Of All Time (September 2008).
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Goofs
Continuity:
During one of the climactic deaths scenes at the end, Sweeney slits the victims throat. Blood spills all over the windows on the roof, The next shot is of Sweeney but the same windows do not seem to have any blood on it, the next shot is of the windows again and there's blood all over it.
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Quotes
[first lines]
Anthony Hope:
I have sailed the world, beheld its wonders, from the Dardanelles to the mountains of Peru. But there's no place like London. Sweeney Todd:
No, there's no place like London. Anthony Hope:
[spoken]
Mr. Todd? Sweeney Todd:
You are young. Life has been kind to you. You will learn. See more »