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  1. Sep 28, 1994 · 90. Written by Filipe Manuel Neto on September 12, 2023. The mostly true story of the legendary "worst director of all time", who, with the help of his strange friends, filmed countless B-movies without ever becoming famous or successful.

  2. Feb 17, 2021 · In reality, Wood's seemingly happy-go-lucky life as a wannabe Orson Welles was tinged with tragedy, alcoholism, and mental illness. Haunted by a lifetime of failure, Wood would turn to adult film in a last-ditch effort to stay in the industry he loved. In 1978, he died destitute and largely unknown at the age of 54.

  3. From director Tim Burton comes the hilarious, true-life story of the wackiest filmmaker in Hollywood history, Ed Wood! With an oddball collection of showbiz...

  4. www.metacritic.com › movie › ed-woodEd Wood - Metacritic

    Sep 28, 1994 · Ed Wood impresses with a good cast (though it can get confusing with the many speaking parts it exhibits) but is a film that leads into nowhere. Obviously, Burton reveres Wood in some strange way, but he can't (or just doesn't) stop this biography of drifting off into a boring tale of a strange transvestite.

  5. By Sven Mikulec. Edward Davis Wood, Jr., to most of the world known simply as Ed Wood, was an American filmmaker who spent the 1950s and the 1960s living and working on the outskirts of Hollywood, trying to catch his big break, until ultimately succumbing to alcoholism and dying in complete poverty at the age of 54.

  6. Oct 7, 2019 · Ed Wood was decidedly nothing like a Jim Carrey movie. Dark, sweet and restrained (by Burton standards, anyway), Ed Wood chronicles the life of Edward D. Wood Jr. (Johnny Depp), a crossdressing wannabe auteur in the 1950s who befriends his hero, a washed-up and drug-addled Bela Lugosi (Martin Landau), and makes schlocky B-movies with a misfit crew.

  7. Ed Wood mě prostě kromě svých Burtonovsko-atmosferických triků, či Bélových strhujících monologů s náhle rozšířeným hudebním podbarvením prakticky ničím nezaujal. Na film se krásně dívá, stojí za shlédnutí, ale kdybych nebyl býval od něj tolik čekal, byl bych býval nebyl tak zklamán…Proto "jen" 4* ;o) ( 14.11.2006 )