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Studio: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: Nov 19, 1999
Running Time: 105 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
Country Of Origin: Germany
synopsis
A retelling of Washington Irving's 18th Century classic "Legend of Sleepy Hollow," with a few Tim Burton twists. Ichabod Crane is an investigator assigned to the case of the series of beheadings in the New York City area, which the locals claim are the work of the spectral Headless Horseman.... which Crane doesn't believe for a moment. But it seems he'll soon discover the truth... and heads will roll.
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Katrina Van Tassel
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Brom Van Brunt
Reverend Steenwyck
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Doctor Lancaster
Notary Hardenbrook
Hessian Horseman
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reviews
July 23, 2001
Even when the narrative stalls from too many detours and decapitations, Sleepy Hollow is gorgeous filmmaking that brims over with fun-house thrills and ravishing romance. The classic Washington Irving tale of a headless horseman who rides at midnight to terrorize a New York village of Dutch settlers -- it's1799 -- proves a natural for Tim Burton. The director of Batman and Edward Scissorhands gives his film the fine burnish of a Bruegel canvas, topped only by eye-popping visual…
Many writers will express dissatisfaction when one of their novels is turned into a movie. By virtue of the differences between the two mediums, pertinent parts of the fiction are often omitted or telescoped. Characters are composited and plot strands jettisoned. Sometimes a fine film can emerge (think ''Gone With the Wind''), sometimes not (see any feature film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels). There are those novelists (like Fitzgerald) who tried their hand in Tinseltown, yet those who…
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