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R for graphic bloody violence.

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The Demon Barber of Fleet Street is wrongfully imprisoned and later seeks revenge on the judge who sent him up the river.

Benjamin Barker, a man unjustly sent to prison by a lecherous judge, vows revenge, not only for that cruel punishment, but for the devastating consequences of what happened to his wife and daughter. When he returns to reopen his barber shop, Sweeney Todd becomes the Demon Barber of Fleet Street who shaved the heads of gentlemen who never thereafter were heard from again.

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An adaptation of the Stephen Sondheim musical.

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