Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street (2007) follows Benjamin Barker, a skilled London barber who returns after fifteen years of wrongful imprisonment in Australia under the new identity of Sweeney Todd. Directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp, Helena Bonham Carter, and Alan Rickman, the film is based on Stephen Sondheim’s Broadway musical. Barker was falsely convicted by the corrupt Judge Turpin, who desired his beautiful wife Lucy and later took custody of their daughter Johanna after Lucy poisoned herself. Now consumed by vengeance, Todd reopens his barber shop above Mrs. Lovett’s struggling meat pie shop on Fleet Street. He begins murdering customers with his straight razors, sending their bodies down to Mrs. Lovett, who uses the corpses to create surprisingly popular meat pies. As Todd slaughters his way toward confronting Turpin, sailor Anthony Hope falls in love with Johanna and attempts to rescue her from the judge’s obsessive control.
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