Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Posted on December 20, 2007 at 6:00 pm
B+| Lowest Recommended Age: | Adult |
| MPAA Rating: | Rated R for graphic bloody violence. |
| Profanity: | Brief strong language |
| Alcohol/ Drugs: | Drinking by adults, child gets drunk |
| Violence/ Scariness: | Extreme, graphic, explicit violence, serial killer, cannibalism, child is beaten, child sentenced to hang |
| Diversity Issues: | Class issues |
| Date Released to Theaters: | December 21, 2007 |
There could be no better match for the gothic saga of the barber who slit men’s throats and the baker who made their bodies into pies than director Tim Burton, the master of the macabre. Here working with Johnny Depp, his favorite leading man, and Helena Bonham-Carter, his off- and on-screen muse, Burton creates a vast world of Victorian gothic menace that ideally sets off Stephen Sondheim’s grimly intricate lyrics.