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Sleepy Hollow
Release Date: 17th January 2000
Distributor: Pathe
Certificate: 15
Starring: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Jeffrey Jones, Christopher Lee, Richard Griffiths, Ian McDiarmid, Lisa Marie, Christopher Walken
Director: Tim Burton
Running Time: 105 mins
Director Tim Burton's ('Batman','Mars Attacks') latest movie, 'Sleepy hollow', is a suspenseful and sweeping tale of ghostly goings on in a small American village.

Set in 1779 Sleepy hollow stars Johnny Depp ('Donnie Brasco') as Ichabod Crane an eccentric and earnest constable with an avant-garde approach to solving crime.
His contemporary investigative ways are put to the test when his superiors send him to the small village of Sleepy Hollow, to probe a string of murders, allegedly committed by a headless horseman. Inspired by Irving washington's classic story 'The Legend of Sleepy Hollow', the movie unites Depp with Christina Ricci ('The Adams Family', The Opposite of Sex') as the bewitching Katarina Van Tassel, daughter of Sleepy Hollow's most affluent family and whose heart Ichabod will win by confronting the legend of the headless horseman, Miranda Richardson ('The Crying Game', 'The Apostle') and Michael Gambon ('The cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover') as her mother and father Lady Van Tssel and Baltus Van Tassel, and includes a cameo from vintage horror film actor Christopher Lee as the village Burgamaster.
The pivotal role of the Hessian Soldier - The Headless Horseman is played by Christopher Walken ('The Deer Hunter', 'The Comfort of Strangers') a strange role since for most of the film you can't see his face. The Horseman is also brought to life by the exceptional talents of stunt-men Ray Park and Rob Inch. Park may be familiar as a certain Darth Maul from Star Wars Episode 1.
Filmed almost entirely in England, and with a supporting cast of well-known British faces, 'Sleepy Hollow' is another excellent example of Burtons mysterious and ethereal style of film making, and as such is well worth seeing.

Clayton Everett