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Ed Wood

Ed Wood

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Key Information
Directors: Tim Burton
Stars: Johnny Depp
Actors: Vincent D'Onofrio
Genre: Comedies
Subgenre: Horror Movies · Mishaps · Recommended · Character Study · True Story · Cult Film · Cult · Showbiz · Film About Film · Filmmakers · Filmmaking · Zombies · Horror Classic · Vampires · Film Directors · Science Fiction · Science-Fiction
MPAA Rating: R (MPAA)
Available Formats: DVD: Special Edition
UPC: 786936072815
Release Date: 1994
Running Time: 2hr 7min
Languages
Original Language: English
DVD Editions
: Format: DVD: Special Edition, 2hr 7min
Release Company: Buena Vista Home Entertainment (October 19, 2004)
UPC: 786936212501
VHS Editions
: Format: VHS, 2hr 7min
Release Company: Buena Vista Home Entertainment (April 18, 1995)
UPC: 765362758036
Professional Reviews
: (07/01/2006, p.128, Total Film Staff): "Burton's sweet, sad, warmly funny paean to Hollywood's old ghosts."
Quotes from the Movie
: "I'm the first celebrity that ever checked into rehab." Martin Landau as Bela Lugosi
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Details: A stranger-than-fiction true story of the early career of Edward D. Wood, Jr., the undisputed "worst movie director of all time," Tim Burton's ED WOOD is nevertheless a delightful, zany, and ultimately moving film. Wood was the auteur behind GLEN OR GLENDA? (1953) and PLAN 9 FROM OUTER SPACE (1959), and it is during the making of these two no-budget flicks that Wood is profiled. His friendship with the aging, drug-addicted, former film star Bela Lugosi--who he cast in his movies--is one of the most poignant characters ever portrayed on film. Wood had an infectious enthusiasm which inspired his cohorts, including transsexual wannabe Bunny (Bill Murray), the psychic Criswell (Jeffrey Jones), and behemoth wrestler Tor Johnson (George "The Animal" Steele). To a large extent, ED WOOD celebrates bad filmmaking raised to the level of a fine art form. With his fetishistic style of dressing in for pumps, narrow skirts and angora sweaters, Ed Wood was as much of an outsider as his actors. Perhaps the final irony i...
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