Sleepy Hollow

 

 

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            Plot Summary: Constable Ichabod Crane (Johnny Depp) is sent from New York City to Sleepy Hollow tp investigate the strange murders happening there. When he arrives he finds that the victim’s heads have been severed and taken and that the people of the village believe that a ghost they call the Headless Horseman is responsible for the killings. Ichabod also meets Kristina Van Tassel (Christina Ricci) who he immediately becomes smitten with.

 

            Director: Tim Burton         

 

            Writer: Washington Irving (short story)

                          Kevin Yagher (screen story)

                          Andrew Kevin Walker (screen story & screenplay)

 

            Cast:  Johnny Depp                       (Constable Ichabod Crane)

                        Christina Ricci                     (Katrina Van Tassel)

                        Miranda Richardson          (Lady Mary Van Tassel/The Western Woods Crone)

                        Michael Gambon                (Baltus Van Tassel)

                        Casper Van Dien                 (Brom Van Brunt)

                        Jeffery Jones                      (Reverend Steenwyck)

                        Christopher Lee                  (Burgomaster)

                        Richard Griffiths                 (Magistrate Samuel Philipse)

                        Ian McDiarmid                     (Dr. Thomas Lancaster)

                        Michael Gough                    (Notary James Hardenbrook)

                        Marc Pickering                    (Young Masbath)

                        Lisa Marie                             (Ichabod’s Mother)

                        Stephen Waddington        (Mr. Killian)

                        Christopher Walken           (The Hessian Horseman)

                        Claire Skinner                      (Midwife Elizabeth ‘Beth’ Killian)

 

            Rating: R

                       

            Review: This movie is truly awesome. Tim Burton is a terrific director who makes terrific movies and we all know that his terrific movies are made even better when Johnny Depp is in them. Johnny Depp plays Constable Ichabod Crane, a flamboyant, idiosyncratic and troubled inspector who comes to Sleepy Hollow to solve the murders. Few people can get away with acting so incredibly dramatic without looking ridiculous, but as always Johnny Depp pulls it off splendidly and his behavior doesn’t seem the least bit odd. I am never quite sure whether I like Christina Ricci or not, but she does well as Katrina Van Tassel, and it is always nice to see the pair together again. Over all a terrific movie. Tim Burton’s work is incredible as always. You can’t go wrong when you put Tim Burton and Johnny Depp together.

 

            Trivia: This is Johnny Depp’s third movie with Christina Ricci and his third with Tim Burton (not counting Charlie and the Chocolate Factory). Christina Ricci was in The Man Who Cried as Suzie and Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas as Lucy. Tim Burton directed Edward Scissorhands in which Johnny played the title character and Ed Wood, in which Johnny also played the title character.