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In 1952, Ed Wood is struggling to join the film industry. Upon hearing of an announcement in Variety that producer George Weiss is trying to purchase Christine Jorgensen's life story, Ed is inspired to meet Weiss in person. Weiss explains that Variety's announcement was a news leak, and it is impossible to purchase Jorgensen's rights. The producer decides to 'fictionalize' the film titled I Changed My Sex!, and "do it without the shemale". One day, Ed meets his longtime idol Béla Lugosi, after spotting him trying out a casket. Ed drives Béla home and the two become friends. Later, Ed decides to star Béla in the film and convinces Weiss that he is perfect to direct I Changed My Sex! because he is a transvestite.

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Ed and Weiss argue over the film's title: Weiss has already had the poster printed, which Ed changes to Glen or Glenda. The shoot finishes on Glen or Glenda, and Ed is enthusiastic that he starred, directed, wrote and produced his own film just like his hero Orson Welles did when he made Citizen Kane. Glen or Glenda is released to critical and financial failure. Ed is unsuccessful in getting a job at Warner Bros., a producer there tells him Glen or Glenda is the worst film he has ever seen, but Ed's girlfriend, Dolores Fuller, tells him that he is not "studio material", and that he should find independent backers for his next film, Bride of the Monster. Ed is unsuccessful in finding money for Bride of the Monster, but is introduced to the psychic The Amazing Criswell.

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At a bar, Ed meets Loretta King, who he thinks has enough money to fund Bride of the Monster. Filming begins, but is halted. Ed convinces meat packing industry tycoon, Don McCoy, to take over funding the film. McCoy does so, but on the condition that the film ends with a giant explosion, and that his son Tony, who "is a little slow", is the leading man. The filming of Bride of the Monster finishes, but Dolores and Ed break up after the wrap party, because of Ed's circle of friends and transvestism. Also, Béla, who is revealed to be highly depressed and a morphine addict, attempts to conduct a double suicide with Ed, but is talked out of it. Béla checks himself into rehab, and Ed finds love when he meets Kathy O'Hara, who is visiting her father at the same hospital. Ed takes her on a date and reveals to her his transvestism, which she accepts.

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Ed Wood is a 1994 American comedy-drama biopic directed and produced by Tim Burton, and starring Johnny Depp as cult filmmaker Ed Wood. The film concerns the period in Wood's life when he made his best-known films as well as his relationship with actor Bela Lugosi, played by Martin Landau. Sarah Jessica Parker, Patricia Arquette, Jeffrey Jones, Lisa Marie, and Bill Murray are among the supporting cast.

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Italian Synopsis
Giunto dalla natia Pennsylvania, negli anni '50, a Los Angeles, il giovane Edward D. Wood Jr. è reduce dall'insuccesso teatrale del suo lavoro "The Casual Company". Determinante è l'incontro col suo idolo Bela Lugosi. Questi, personificazione del mito di Dracula, è disoccupato da 4 anni, vive del sussidio di disoccupazione, è da tempo alcolizzato e morfinomane, ma Ed riversa su di lui tutto l'affetto e l'ammirazione che ha in sé. Ed ha già proposto al produttore Weiss la storia di un uomo incerto sulla sua destinazione sessuale, "Glen or Glenda", che riflette la sua segreta passione per l'intimo femminile, atteggiamento che sconcerta non poco la moglie Dolores Fuller. Wood diviene il protagonista di questo scombiccherato antesignano dei film "en travesti" che la presenza di Lugosi dovrebbe nobilitare e che rende ilare Feldman della Warner quando gli viene sottoposto. Ma Wood non demorde, ed organizza convention per raccogliere, invano, fondi.

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Privo di denaro, accetta dapprima un'aspirante attricetta, Loretta King, al posto della moglie, che poi lo lascia, e quindi l'inetto figlio di un macellaio come protagonista. Lugosi deve addirittura mimare una lotta in una pozza gelata con una piovra di gomma rubata e priva di motore. "La sposa del mostro", già "Sposa dell'atomo", è un'altro insuccesso clamoroso. Frattanto Lugosi, gravemente intossicato, va in ospedale. Nell'assistere Ed conosce la sua futura ed affezionata moglie, Kathy O'Hara. Poi Bela, dopo aver girato una scena del film "Ladri di tombe dallo spazio", muore. Il padrone di casa, il pastore battista Lemon accetta di finanziare, per raccogliere con gli incassi fondi per una serie di film religiosi, "Plan 9 from Outer Space". Fa però battezzare tutta la strampalata troupe: la presentatrice televisiva Vampira; il sensitivo Criswell, il chiropratico Tom Mason, assunto quale controfigura di Lugosi; il lottatore Tor Johnson, l'omosessuale Bunny Breckinridge, che sogna un cambiamento di sesso in Messico. Prima della ipotetica quanto trionfale "prima" al prestigioso "Pantages" di Los Angeles", Ed ricorda l'amico scomparso.

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Special Features:
- Audio Commentary by Director Tim Burton, Writers Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, Cinematographer Stefan Czapsky, Costume Designer Colleen Atwood and Actor Martin Landau

- "Lets Shoot This Fucker" featurette (13:55)
- "Making Bela" featurette (8:15)
- "Pie Plates Over Hollywood" featurette (13:50)
- "The Theremin" featurette (7:23)
- "When Carol Met Larry" featurette (9:22)
- Theatrical Trailer (2:17)
- Music Video (3:28)

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