

Sleepy Hollow
Heads will roll.
Skeptical young detective Ichabod Crane gets transferred to the hamlet of Sleepy Hollow, New York, where he is tasked with investigating the decapitations of three people – murders the townsfolk attribute to a legendary specter, The Headless Horseman.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $100M
- Box office
- $206.1M
- Language
- English
- small town
- halloween
- police detective
- gothic
- new york state
- skeptic
- macabre
- autumn
- 19th century
- headless horseman
- amused
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Release dates
IndiaIN
- TheatricalUA14 Jul 2000
United StatesUS
- PremiereRLos Angeles, California17 Nov 1999
- TheatricalR19 Nov 1999
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical157 Jan 2000
- Physical15DVD24 Jul 2000
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalMA 15+1 Jan 2000
CanadaCA
- Theatrical14A19 Nov 1999
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical10 Feb 2000
BelgiumBE
- Theatrical189 Feb 2000
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1828 Jan 2000
ChinaCN
- PremiereBeijing International Film Festival18 Apr 2026
CzechiaCZ
- Theatrical15+27 Apr 2000
DenmarkDK
- Theatrical1517 Mar 2000
EgyptEG
- Theatrical29 Mar 2000
Frequently asked questions
Sleepy Hollow was released on 19 November 1999.
Audience reviews
6- D6/10
Dark Jedi
5/27/2014
et us get this over with right away. I do not think Johnny Depp was the right person for playing Ichabod Crane. Maybe I am too influenced by seeing him in Pirates of The Caribbean but I just do not think he was the right person for this role. He really did not work for me. He is to whimsical and gesticulating to be taken seriously as a scientifically inclined crime investigator as far as I am concerned. Too bad si…
- J8/10
John Chard
5/7/2019
It is you, Ichabod Crane, who is now put to the test. Sleepy Hollow is directed by Tim Burton and co-adapted to screenplay by Andrew Kevin Walker and Kevin Yagher from the The Legend of Sleepy Hollow written by Washington Irving. It stars Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Miranda Richardson, Marc Pickering, Michael Gambon, Jeffrey Jones and Casper Van Dien. Music is scored by Danny Elfman and cinematography by Emmanue…
- K6/10
Kamurai
8/2/2020
Decent watch, might watch again, and can recommend. While Johnny Depp and Christina Ricci do carry quite a bit of the movie, there is quite a lot else going on here. The horseman does tend to dominate much of this story as the original does. I don't feel there was much to the original fable of the Headless Horseman so pretty much any take you do on it seems fine: though maybe an Easter Bunny version would push…
- W9/10
Wuchak
10/5/2020
_**Great Spooky Flick for the Fall Season!**_ "Sleepy Hollow" is Tim Burton's stylish 1999 take on Washington Irving's classic tale about Ichabod Crane and the Headless Horseman starring Johnny Depp as Crane and Christopher Walken as the Hessian horseman. The story is set in 1799 and involves Crane, a constable from New York City, going to the Dutch hamlet of Sleepy Hollow to investigate a series of gruesome murde…
- G1/10
GenerationofSwine
1/12/2023
Well, it has a great cast, and they all do a great job. But, it's really Tim declaring to the world that he is too lazy to read...again. Much like he was with Batman and absolutely every other adaptation that he's made. I had a girlfriend when I was an undergrad that absolutely totally loved a lot of books...but only ever actually read "The Mists of Avalon."...she was an art major too. So, it turns into Tim …
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