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TIM BURTON’S CORPSE BRIDE


In a small, gloomily repressed Victorian town, two shy young people are set to be wed – although they’ve never before met.

Crass, social-climbing canned fish tycoons Nell and William Van Dort (voiced by Tracey Ullman and Paul Whitehouse) have always dreamt of joining high society – but while they’re not lacking in wealth, they’re sorely lacking in the requisite class.

Conversely, old-money aristocrats Maudeline and Finis Everglot (voiced by Joanna Lumley and Albert Finney), direct descendents of the Duke of Everglot – as they will freely profess to anyone who will listen – are full of class but drained of cash. Their money has long ago dried up, and all they have left of worth is their name and social standing…and, as it turns out, their daughter Victoria (voiced by Emily Watson). While they’ve never seen much worth in her, she may just be their ticket back up the social ladder, as it seems the Van Dorts have a bachelor son, Victor (voiced by Johnny Depp).

The Everglots are willing to hold their noses and grudgingly marry Victoria off to the son of the dreadful Van Dorts – nouveau-riche is still riche, after all. The deal is made, and the two families are quickly in a tizzy, as everyone is quite excited about the impending nuptials…except for the bride and groom. But everybody knows that marriage isn’t about love anyway – just ask Maudeline and Finis.

Victor and Victoria first set eyes on each other on the eve of their wedding, when the families gather for a proper introduction between the soon-to-be-newlyweds, to be immediately followed by a wedding rehearsal. While it’s difficult to say who is shyer, upon their first meeting it seems possible that against all odds, Victor and Victoria’s chance for true love may not have been lost. But at the rehearsal, Victor bungles his vows so badly – even before he accidentally lights his future mother-in-law’s dress on fire – that Pastor Galswells (voiced by Christopher Lee) sends him away until he can manage to learn his lines correctly.

Humiliated, he wanders off into the dark forest surrounding the village. Once he is alone, he is able to recite his vows perfectly, even going so far as to gently place the wedding ring on the root of a tree as a finishing touch. But it isn’t a root after all.

Terrifyingly, the strange and beautiful decaying corpse of a woman wearing the tattered remains of a wedding gown rises up from the ground, wearing Victoria’s ring on her bony finger. It seems that Victor has unwittingly betrothed himself to the Corpse Bride (voiced by Helena Bonham Carter).

Ever since she was mysteriously murdered on her wedding night, the Corpse Bride has waited, heartbroken, for her groom to come and claim her. While her heart may have stopped beating long ago, her search for true love, and a husband to share her eternal rest with, has never ended. Victor has mistakenly become that groom, and is dragged down beneath the earth to the Land of the Dead, a rowdy reversal of the staid life he has always known – in the Land of the Dead, the pubs are always open and the corpses are more lively than anything you will find aboveground in the dull and somber Land of the Living.

Victor tries in vain to find his way back to Victoria, who is waiting bereft in the Land of the Living, somehow unable to convince anyone that a dead woman has dragged her fiancé off to the underworld. Instead of helping their daughter, the Everglots hastily arrange a second wedding, this time to the mysterious and sinister Barkis Bittern (voiced by Richard E. Grant), who just happens to be in the right place at the right time to take Victoria’s hand…

While the Corpse Bride is determined not to let him escape the bonds of their unholy matrimony, Victor must find a way to return from the Land of the Dead, and back into the arms of the love of his life.

Warner Bros. Pictures presents a TIM BURTON/LAIKA ENTERTAINMENT production, Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride, directed by MIKE JOHNSON and TIM BURTON. The film is produced by TIM BURTON and ALLISON ABBATE from a screenplay by JOHN AUGUST and CAROLINE THOMPSON and PAMELA PETTLER. The executive producers are JEFFREY AUERBACH and JOE RANFT. The director of photography is PETE KOZACHIK; the production designer is ALEX McDOWELL; the editors are JONATHAN LUCAS and CHRIS LEBENZON, A.C.E.; score and songs by DANNY ELFMAN.

Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride will be released by Warner Bros. Pictures, a Warner Bros. Entertainment Company.

This film has been rated “PG” by the Motion Picture Association of America for “some scary images and action, and brief mild language.”


Tim Burton’s Corpse Bride opens in a limited release on 9/16, going wide on 9/23.


The Grand Prize Winner will receive

- Umbrella with skeleton imprint on all panels. (Be the coolest person on the street when it rains!)

- Corpse Bride Sweatshirt
- Corpse Bride Scarf
- 2 Corpse Bride Notebooks with lenticular cover


5 Second Place Winners will each receive

- Soundtrack CDs
- Weathered Baseball Caps
- Floaty Pens
- Corpse Bride T-shirts ("You are not dead. You are just married.")


5 Third Place Winners will each receive

- Corpse Bride Garters
- Skeleton Arm Key Chain
- Corpse Bride Magnet Sheets (Dress the Corpse Bride for her wedding!)


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