Film

Corpse Bride 2005

Directed by Mike Johnson, Tim Burton

  • Romance, Fantasy, Animation
  • 77 min
  • PG

There's been a grave misunderstanding.

In a 19th-century European village, a young man about to be married is whisked away to the underworld and wed to a mysterious corpse bride, while his real bride waits bereft in the land of the living.

RomanceFantasyAnimationskeletonlove trianglecheatingwedding vowsshynessarranged marriagemarriagegravehalloweenvillainbridemusical

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