Sleepy Hollow
Sleepy Hollow is a 1999 gothic supernatural horror film directed by Tim Burton. It is a film adaptation loosely based on Washington Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow", and stars Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci, with Miranda Richardson, Michael Gambon, Casper Van Dien, Christopher Lee and Jeffrey Jones in supporting roles. The plot follows police constable Ichabod Crane (Depp) sent from New York City to investigate a series of murders in the village of Sleepy Hollow by a mysterious Headless Horseman.
Plot
In 1799, Ichabod Crane, a New York City police constable criticized for his predilection for scientific methods, is dispatched to the upstate Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, which has been plagued by a series of brutal decapitations: a wealthy father and his son, Peter and Dirk Van Garrett, and a widow, Emily Winship. Received by the insular town elders—wealthy businessman Baltus Van Tassel, town doctor Thomas Lancaster, the Reverend Steenwyck, notary James Hardenbrook, and magistrate Samuel Philipse—Ichabod learns that locals believe the killer is the undead apparition of a headless Hessian mercenary from the Revolutionary War who rides at nightfall on a black steed in search of his missing head.
Awards
Cast
- Alun Armstrong
- Casper Van Dien
- Christina Ricci
- Christopher Lee
- Christopher Walken
- Claire Skinner
- Ian McDiarmid
- Jamie Foreman
- Jeffrey Jones
- Johnny Depp
- Lisa Marie
- Marc Pickering
- Mark Spalding
- Martin Landau
- Michael Feast
- Michael Gambon
- Michael Gough
- Miranda Richardson
- Peter Guinness
- Ray Park
- Richard Griffiths
- Steven Waddington