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- 113 Minutes
- Warner Bros.
- Language English
- Country USA
- Rated:
- Format: 1.85:1
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- Directed by Tim Burton
- Written by John August, Seth Grahame-smith
- Starring Helena Bonham Carter, Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer
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Director Tim Burton brings the cult classic series "Dark Shadows" to the big screen in a film featuring an all-star cast, led by Johnny Depp, Michelle Pfeiffer and Helena Bonham Carter. In the year 1750, Joshua and Naomi Collins, with young son Barnabas, set sail from England to start a new life in America, where they build a fishing empire in the coastal Maine town that comes to carry their name: Collinsport. Two decades pass and Barnabas (Johnny Depp) has the world at his feet... until he makes the grave mistake of falling in love with a beauty named Josette DuPres (Bella Heathcote) and breaking the heart of Angelique Bouchard (Eva Green). Angelique dooms him to a fate worse than death, turning him into a vampire, and then burying him alive. Nearly two centuries later, Barnabas is inadvertently freed from his tomb and emerges into the very changed world of 1972, a stranger in an even stranger time.
Though hardly in a class with Burton or star Johnny Depp's most memorable collaborations, this big-screen take on the cult-beloved daytime soap, which ran from 1966 to 1971, is an often amusing, teasingly naughty lark.