Based on the hit Broadway musical telling the tale of the infamous Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd (Johnny Depp), who sets up a barber shop in ye olde London town.
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Ray Winstone stars as the sinister 'demon barber of Fleet Street' in this BBC dramatisation of the legend. In 18th century London, the emotionally damaged Sweeney Todd has managed to put his brutal upbringing behind him, including a spell in the notorious Newgate prison, in order to open a well-appointed barber-surgeon's shop. When Todd develops an unusual and intense relationship with promiscuous local girl Nellie Lovett (Essie Davis), he helps to set her up in business in a pie shop next door to his premises. Nellie soon discovers that Todd has a murderous secret though, and has been killing his customers, butchering them, and passing on their meat to be used in Nellie's pies. As Nellie becomes complicit in Todd's actions, sending him unpleasant or rich customers for him to dispose of, the spate of disappearances begins to attract the attention of Fielding's (David Warner) new Bow Street Runners, and before long the trail is discovered that leads to Todd's barber's chair.
Set in 18th Century London this is a sombre adaptation of the story of the infamous barber 'Sweeney Todd' of Fleet Street. The barber has set up shop in his home in Fleet Street and all seems quite normal until he shaves one of the prison wardens at Newgate Prison. Their conversation seems to trigger something in Sweeney Todd's mind and unlocks a demon that he cannot escape. The Bow Street Runners start to investigate when body parts turn up in the river, customers go missing and Mrs Lovett's pie shop next door is selling a lot of meat pies...
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