Ed Wood

4.25
    Ed Wood
    1994

    Synopsis

    The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

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    Cast

    • Johnny DeppEd Wood
    • Martin LandauBela Lugosi
    • Sarah Jessica ParkerDolores Fuller
    • Patricia ArquetteKathy O'Hara
    • Jeffrey JonesCriswell
    • Bill MurrayBunny Breckinridge
    • Lisa MarieVampira
    • Jim MyersTor Johnson
    • G. D. SpradlinReverend Lemon
    • Vincent D'OnofrioOrson Welles

    Recommendations

    • 100

      Entertainment Weekly

      A comedy of the ridiculous in which the ridiculous turns unexpectedly sublime.
    • 100

      Chicago Tribune

      One of those rare films that communicates the exquisite joy of the moviemaking process. [7 October 1994, Friday, p.B]
    • 80

      Washington Post

      Making a movie about the life of Ed Wood certainly qualifies as an impossible dream, but Burton has pulled it off with wit, imagination and something amazingly close to grace.
    • 80

      Los Angeles Times

      Turns out to be a thoroughly entertaining if eccentric piece of business, wacky and amusing in a cheerfully preposterous way. [28 September 1994, Calendar, p.F-1]
    • 78

      Austin Chronicle

      The strangest biographical film ever made is also one of the most charming, melancholy and quirkily humorous films of the year.
    • 75

      San Francisco Chronicle

      Burton has trouble sustaining the briskness of the first half. But the brilliance of many individual scenes, and the extraordinary performance by Landau, are more than enough to justify this goofy, tender ode to eccentricity. [7 October 1994, Daily Notebook, p.C1]
    • 70

      The New York Times

      If Ed Wood has a major failing, it's the lack of momentum. Wood's career had nowhere to go, and to some extent the film has the same problem. [23 September 1994, p.C34]
    • 70

      Variety

      Always engaging to watch and often dazzling in its imagination and technique, picture is also a bit distended, and lacking in weight at its center.

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