From Hell Movie Review 2001

The Hughes brothers take on the legend of Jack the Ripper in this grisly period thriller. Inspector Abberline (Depp) is the fictional opium-addled detective charged with finding the notorious killer of London's ladies of the night in 1888. With the help of his police sidekick Godley (Coltrane) and the cockney hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold Mary (Graham), Abberline pries into the medical community, the royal family and other less respectable areas in his search for the Ripper. Beautiful visuals and taut suspense raise this effort a notch above other adaptions of the material. Based on a graphic novel (a.k.a. fancy-schmancy comic book) by Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell.

Distribution

Fox Home Entertainment, PO Box 900, Beverly Hills, CA 90213, Phone: (310)369-3900, Toll-free: 888-223-4FOX, Fax: (310)369-5811, URL: http://www.foxmovies.com/index1.html, Remarks: Also known as Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment

Available on VHS, DVD
Running time 121 minutes.
Originally from United States.

Cast and Crew

Genres

London, Jack the Ripper, True Crime, Period Piece: 19th Century, Oldest Profession, Police Detectives, Psychic Abilities

Screenplay

Terry Hayes, Rafael Yglesias

Cast

Johnny Depp, Heather Graham, Ian Holm, Robbie Coltrane, Ian Richardson, Jason Flemyng, Katrin Cartlidge, Terence Harvey, Susan Lynch, Leslie Sharp, Annabelle Apsion

Cinematography

Peter Deming

Director

Albert Hughes, Allen Hughes

Music

Trevor Jones

Other

Steven D. Williams, Franklin D. Stettner, George Bowers, Dan Lebental, Mark Raggett, Kym Barrett, Martin Childs

Producer

Don Murphy, Jane Hamsher, Underworld Pictures, 20th Century-Fox