In Movie Theaters the Week of December 17th, 2007 - MovieWeb: "Sweeney Todd"
Rated: R for graphic bloody violence
The story of 'Sweeney Todd' is of a wrongfully imprisoned barber in Victorian England who sets out to seek revenge on the judge who imprisoned him. The plot is foreshadowed in the first lines of the opening number:
'Attend the tale of Sweeney Todd./His skin was pale and his eye was odd./He shaved the faces of gentlemen/Who never thereafter were heard of again.'




