
Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life. Despite a lack of critical or commercial success, Ed and his friends manage to create an oddly endearing series of extremely low-budget films... (Full plot summary below)
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Because of his eccentric habits and bafflingly strange films, director Edward D. Wood Jr. is a Hollywood outcast. Nevertheless, with the help of the formerly famous Bela Lugosi and a devoted cast and crew of show-business misfits who believe in Ed's off-kilter vision, the filmmaker is able to bring his oversize dreams to cinematic life. Despite a lack of critical or commercial success, Ed and his friends manage to create an oddly endearing series of extremely low-budget films.
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| NUVO NewsweeklyEdward Johnson-OttTim Burton at his best, with great work by Johnny Depp & Martin Landau. |
| Entertainment WeeklyOwen GleibermanA comedy of the ridiculous in which the ridiculous turns unexpectedly sublime. |
| Film Comment MagazineRobert HortonJust daft enough and just deft enough to satisfy high-culture and low-culture aficionados alike. |
| Chicago TribuneGene SiskelWhat Burton has made is a film which celebrates Wood more than it mocks him, and which celebrates, too, the zany spirit of 1950s exploitation films - in which a great title, a has-been star and a lurid ad campaign were enough to get bookings for some of the oddest films ever made. |
| Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN)Bob BloomDepp's magnificent performance, plus Burton's love of his subject make for a wonderful film. Landau is magnificent as Bela Lugosi. A great film that celebrates the little filmmakers who dreamed big. |
| GuardianDerek MalcolmBurton imitates Wood 's films brilliantly, and Wood 's chaotic lifestyle is brought to the screen with brio. |
| The New York Review of BooksGeoffrey O'BrienBurton succeeds in creating a benign parallel world where the last are the first and the insulted and injured become the recipients of all-star tributes. |
| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatIdiosyncratic portrait of an oddball whose enthusiasm for making movies is endearing. |
| Mountain Xpress (Asheville, NC)Ken HankeTrue or not, the film is brilliant in every capacity %u2013 rich, warm and outrageously funny. |
| Cinema CrazedFelix Vasquez Jr.A masterful ode to movie making and the horror genre. |