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Ed Wood
Directed by
Tim Burton
1993
2h 7m
R
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Ambitious but troubled movie director Edward D. Wood Jr. tries his best to fulfill his dreams despite his lack of talent.
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Cast of Ed Wood
Johnny Depp
Ed Wood
Martin Landau
Bela Lugosi
Sarah Jessica Parker
Dolores Fuller
Patricia Arquette
Kathy O'Hara
Jeffrey Jones
Criswell
Bill Murray
Bunny Breckinridge
Lisa Marie
Vampira
Jim Myers
Tor Johnson
G. D. Spradlin
Reverend Lemon
Vincent D'Onofrio
Orson Welles
Mike Starr
Georgie Weiss
Max Casella
Paul Marco
Brent Hinkley
Conrad Brooks
Juliet Landau
Loretta King
Clive Rosengren
Ed Reynolds
Norman Alden
Cameraman Bill (uncredited)
Leonard Termo
Makeup Man Harry (uncredited)
Ned Bellamy
Dr. Tom Mason (uncredited)
Danny Dayton
Soundman (uncredited)
Ross Manarchy
Camera Assistant (uncredited)
Bill Cusack
Tony McCoy
Stanley DeSantis
Mr. Feldman (uncredited)
Biff Yeager
Rude Boss (uncredited)
Joseph R. Gannascoli
Security Guard (uncredited)
Carmen Filpi
Old Crusty Man (uncredited)
Lisa Malkiewicz
Secretary #1 (uncredited)
Melora Walters
Secretary #2 (uncredited)
Conrad Brooks
Bartender (uncredited)
Don Amendolia
Salesman (uncredited)
Reid Cruickshanks
Stage Guard (uncredited)
Lionel Decker
Executive #1 (uncredited)
Edmund L. Shaff
Executive #2 (uncredited)
Gene LeBell
Ring Announcer (uncredited)
Bobby Slayton
TV Show Host (uncredited)
Gretchen Becker
TV Host's Assistant (uncredited)
John Rice
Conservative Man (uncredited)
Catherine Butterfield
Conservative Wife (uncredited)
Mary Portser
Backer's Wife (uncredited)
King Cotton
Hick Backer (uncredited)
Don Hood
Southern Backer (uncredited)
Matthew Barry
Valet (uncredited)
Ralph Monaco
Waiter (uncredited)
Anthony Russell
Busboy (uncredited)
Gregory Walcott
Potential Backer (uncredited)
Charles C. Stevenson Jr.
Another Backer (uncredited)
Rance Howard
Old Man McCoy (uncredited)
Vasek Simek
Professor Strowski (uncredited)
Vinny Argiro
TV Horror Show Director (uncredited)
Korla Pandit
Indian Musician (uncredited)
Patti Tippo
Nurse (uncredited)
Ray Baker
Doctor (uncredited)
Louis Lombardi
Rental House Manager (uncredited)
Jesse Hernandez
Wrestling Opponent (uncredited)
Jim Boyce
Theatre Manager (uncredited)
Ben Ryan Ganger
Angry Kid (uncredited)
Charlie Holliday
Tourist (uncredited)
Tommy Bertelsen
Tough Boy (uncredited)
Adam Drescher
Photographer #1 (uncredited)
Ric Mancini
Photographer #2 (uncredited)
Daniel Riordan
Pilot / Strapping Young Man (uncredited)
Mickey Cottrell
Hammy Alien (uncredited)
Lena Banks
Sexy Pedestrian (uncredited)
Maurice LaMarche
Orson Welles (voice) (uncredited)
Ada Tai
Vampira's Friend (uncredited)
Arlene Tai
Vampira's Friend (uncredited)
Rayder Woods
Car Vandal (uncredited)
Ralph Moratz
Extra (uncredited)
Bill Blair
Carny (uncredited)
Ryan Holihan
Frantic Usher
Ed Wood Reviews
Entertainment Weekly
Owen Gleiberman
Ed Wood [is] a comedy of the ridiculous in which the ridiculous turns unexpectedly sublime.
ReelViews
James Berardinelli
Given the finished film, one also has to wonder if Ed Wood was interesting enough to base a two- hour movie on.
TIME Magazine
Richard Corliss
This Ed Wood is dead wood.
Rolling Stone
Peter Travers
Outrageously disjointed and just as outrageously entertaining, the picture stands as a successful outsider's tribute to a failed kindred spirit.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Burton has evoked the surface of Ed Wood's life, but in a story about a man who loves angora and frilly panties, he has barely unbuttoned Wood's uniform.
San Francisco Chronicle
Edward Guthmann
An entertaining, oddly affectionate look at the cross-dressing grade-Z moviemaker.
Washington Post
Hal Hinson
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.
Chicago Sun-Times
Roger Ebert
The movie's black and white photography convincingly recaptures the look and feel of 1950s sleaze, including some of the least convincing special effects in movie history.
Austin Chronicle
Marc Savlov
The strangest biographical film ever made is also one of the most charming, melancholy and quirkily humorous films of the year.
Chicago Reader
Jonathan Rosenbaum
Ed Wood doesn't really give us the inside of Wood's head, but it does treat imaginatively a number of Wood movies that retain a certain fascination ...
Film Comment Magazine
Robert Horton
Just daft enough and just deft enough to satisfy high-culture and low-culture aficionados alike.
Variety
Todd McCarthy
Beguiling rather than thrilling, oddly charming instead of transporting, meaning that Disney will have its work cut out for it with what is at heart a cult movie and a film buff's dream.
New York Times
Janet Maslin
Mr. Depp isn't best known as a comic actor, but he gives a witty and captivating performance, bringing wonderful buoyancy to this crazy role.
Film.com
John Hartl
In his finest, funniest, most poignant film to date, Tim Burton plays cinematic alchemist, turning drive-in schlock into movie gold.
Film.com
Lucy Mohl
[An] oddly affectionate bio-pic.
Salt Lake Tribune
Sean P. Means
What happens when a good filmmaker tries to make a great film about a terrible filmmaker. In the case of Tim Burton's Ed Wood, you get an odd and oddly unsatisfying film with occasional flourishes of brilliance.
Film Frenzy
Matt Brunson
Tim Burton's best movie, this unique gem is a gentle valentine that celebrates the creative spirit, no matter how misguided that particular spirit happens to be.
Rochester Democrat and Chronicle
Jack Garner
The film is not only a hilarious satire of Wood and his low-budget antics, but also a loving paean to dreamers everywhere.
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Harper Barnes
The sweet center of the movie is Wood's resurrection of horror actor Bela Lugosi, a despairing drug addict who is played brilliantly by Martin Landau.
Fresno Bee
John Scalzi
It's pathetic, but Burton does a good job of keeping it entertaining. You might not want to be any of these people, but you don't mind watching.
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