A Lovely Touching Film for All of the Wood-be film makers out there ....

Rating: 10/10 (20 October 2004)

A man's reach exceeds his grasp !!!
Ed Wood, while not commercially successful in life, found his greatness in compassion. and the ability to overcome great difficulties.
Tim Burton's opus to all of the wood-be filmmakers, pun intended.
Terrific music and screen play high-lite this tribute to anyone who has dreams ! Enter Ed Wood, a struggling play writer, who has a fetish for Angora sweaters. His life long ambition , is to tell stories, in whatever format that suits his purpose. Well, as fate would have it, a chance encounter with Bela Lugosi, a man whose life is tormented by his drug addiction, and an opportunity to actually direct a low budget movie, " I Changed My Sex, or Glen or Glenda" a take-off of the then current day tale of Christen Jorgensen, the first man to change his sex thru surgery. The movie displays , with great charm and heart, the missing attributes from ED's films, that he had in life. The story centers on the friendship, between Ed Wood, and the legendary actor , Bela Lugosi, and what a ride it is. Scene after scene takes us through the revolving doors of show business, and the endless steps to produce and\or direct a movie. A terrific script by Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, elevated by the performances of Bela Lugosi(Martin Landau), Ed Wood Jr.(Johnny Depp), Bunny Breckinridge(Bill Murray) , Dolores Fuller(Sarah Jessica Parker),and lovingly directed by Tim Burton, all worthy of Academy nominations. A True American Classic.
Trivia, one of life's ironies is near the end of the movie when the conversation between Orson Welles telling Ed Wood of his difficulty to finance a movie of Don Quixote. In real life a few years after this movie, of an attempt by Director Terry Gilliam to film Don Quixote starring Johnny Depp. The movie was never completed because of internal problems with missing actors and technical difficulties in the filming locations . Essentially, the film ran out of money . Wow, how about real life imitating art . Spooky !