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1994

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Starring	Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray
Director	Tim Burton
Genres	Comedy, Drama

Ed Wood

Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself with a motley crew of Hollywood misfits, outcasts, has-beens, and never-weres. The real story, however, is his friendship with aging, morphine-addicted Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), whom he tries to help stage a comeback. Landau's unforgettable Oscar-winning performance must be seen to be believed, as must Rick Baker's Oscar-winning makeup. While it would have been easy to make a film simply ridiculing the bumbling director, Burton instead focuses on his driving passion for filmmaking and his unwavering persistence in the face of ridicule and failure. Possibly the most surprising aspect of the film is the genuine sentiment with which Burton treats the relationship between Wood and Lugosi; his devotion to Lugosi is touching, as is Lugosi's final soliloquy -- an inane bit of dialogue from the hilariously bad Bride of the Monster that grows into a poignant metaphor for the actor's life and ultimate triumph of his spirit. Even the look of the film is right; it manages to preserve the air of one of Wood's own films while retaining a sense of artistry in much of the composition on screen (note the scene at the drug rehab where Lugosi endures a horrifying night of detox). In all, Ed Wood is a unique film -- at times side-splittingly funny; at others, tragic or even frightening -- and a heartfelt tribute to the love of movies, good and bad alike.~ Jeremy Beday, All Movie Guide

Starring	Johnny Depp, Martin Landau, Sarah Jessica Parker, Bill Murray, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Vincent D'Onofrio, Vincent D'Onofrio, G.D. Spradlin, Juliet Landau, Lisa Marie
Director	Tim Burton
Studio	WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 2 hrs 1 min
Certificate
Genres	Comedy, Drama
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1994 To Rent: DVD: 15 Jun 2006

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- A delightful, charming, straight-faced account of a hopelessly obsessive film-maker and transvestite, which turns his ineffectual life and career into some sort of triumphant celebration of the American dream, making a success of failure; its appeal, thou
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  Don't waste your time. The worst film I have ever seen and switched it off near the end.
  
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  Tim Burton and Johnny Depp go together hand in glove. This film was really awful but funny at the same time. If you get my meaning.
  
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  Ed Wood is a Fantastic Film
  
  This film is well worth watching, its strange but funny in places. You really do have to appreciate black and white films, regardless of Johnny Depp being in ... read more »
  
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  I appreciate what Tim Burton was trying to do with the effects and style, paying homage to Ed Wood and shooting the whole picture in black and white. It was not... read more »
  
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Depp gives singer/songwriter Babybird a 2010 boost
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Johnny Depp has given hitmaker Babybird a big boost by insisting the singer/songwriter's 2010 album EX-MANIAC will be the album of the year. The movie star was asked to list his 'Essentials' for U.S. magazine Entertainment Weekly and admits he already can't live without his friend's new album. Depp says, "He's a national treasure, if you're British. For everyone else, he's a diamond waiting to be found. Lyrically, he's black as night, brilliant and sharp as a razor." The Pirates of the... Read more
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  Hollywood visionary Tim Burton pays homage to another Hollywood visionary, albeit a less successful one, in this unusual fictionalized biography. The film follows Wood (Johnny Depp) in his quest for film greatness as he writes and directs turkey after turkey, cross-dresses, and surrounds himself ...