More than the legend will survive.
Frederick Abberline is an opium-huffing inspector from Scotland Yard who falls for one of Jack the Ripper's prostitute targets in this Hughes brothers adaption of a graphic novel that posits the Ripper's true identity.
- 6.7
- 2001
- Released
- 2h 2m
Johnny Depp
Fred Abberline
Heather Graham
Mary Kelly
Ian Holm
Sir William Gull
Robbie Coltrane
Peter Godley
Ian Richardson
Sir Charles Warren
Jason Flemyng
Netley
Katrin Cartlidge
Dark Annie Chapman
Terence Harvey
Ben Kidney
Susan Lynch
Liz Stride
Paul Rhys
Dr. Ferral
Lesley Sharp
Kate Eddowes
Estelle Skornik
Ada
Nicholas McGaughey
Officer Bolt
Annabelle Apsion
Polly
Joanna Page
Ann Crook
Mark Dexter
Albert Sickert / Prince Edward Albert Victor
Danny Midwinter
Constable Withers
Samantha Spiro
Martha Tabram
David Schofield
McQueen
Bryon Fear
Robert Best
Peter Eyre
Lord Hallsham
Cliff Parisi
Mac Bartender
Sophia Myles
Victoria Abberline
Ralph Ineson
Gordie
Amy Huck
Gull's Maid
Rupert Farley
Doss Landlord
Donald Douglas
Hospital Director
John Owens
Marylebone GovernorLiz Moscrop
Queen Victoria
Ian McNeice
Robert Drudge
Steve John Shepherd
Special Branch Constable
Al Hunter Ashton
Stonecutter
Poppy Rogers
Alice Crook
Bruce Byron
Ann Crook's Father
Melanie Hill
Ann Crook's Mother
Andy Linden
CarpenterDavid Fisher
Carpenter / Letter Writer
Gary Powell
Constable #1Steve Chaplin
Constable #2
Vincent Franklin
George LuskLouise Atkins
Bold HookerAnthony Parker
John Merrick
James Greene
Masonic Governor
Dominic Cooper
Constable #3Carey Thring
Police PhotographerVladimír Kulhavý
Rag & Bone ManGraham Kent
Records Clerk
Rupert Holliday-Evans
SailorSimon Harrison
Thomas BondPaul Moody
Young Doctor
Glen Berry
Young LabourerCharles Parish
Labourer #2Gerry Grenn
Funeral Minister / Letter Writer
Released
en
$35,000,000.00
$74,558,115.00
- #london, england
- #loss of loved one
- #drug addiction
- #jack the ripper
- #based on comic
- #united kingdom
- #macabre
- #aggressive
- #somber
- #urban gothic
- #absurd
- #sinister
- #admiring
- #adoring
- #defiant
- #enthusiastic
- #vibrant
Reviews
Great watch, would watch again, and can recommend. If you're accepting or even intrigued by the case of Jack the Ripper, then this should be a great murder mystery for you. Johnny Depp, opinions aside, does confused, drug-addicted, and detective all well. Heather Graham is able to emote and elevate her role wonderfully, despite it basically being a damsel role. Almost everyone else is ol
From Alan Moore, the Hughes brothers and Johnny Depp RELEASED IN 2001 and directed by the Hughes brothers, "From Hell" details the Jack the Ripper slayings in the slummy Whitechapel district of London in autumn, 1888. Johnny Depp plays an opium-addicted detective while Robbie Coltrane appears as his colleague. Heather Graham is on hand as a prostitute that captures the Detective’s interest.
I went into this having only seen 'The Book of Eli' by these directors, The Hughes Brothers. I quite liked that film, although I did feel their vivacious stylizations interfered with the telling of the story. Seeing this earlier film of theirs confirmed that suspicion, though it's still a fine film. Though Johnny Depp (the brothers' 5th choice for the lead) does a fine job as the film's protagonis
I cannot say that I am an outright fan of old era British crime stories but I do fancy them now and then. This one is a rather dark, grim and gloomy story perfectly suitable as a evening movie at this time of the year when darkness already starts to come quickly and matches the candlelight mood of Victorian London. I found this a quite nice movie. Well up to its very end which I have to admit i