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edward scissorhands (1990)

edward scissorhands
Edward Scissorhands
PG-13
Drama
Documentary
Fantasy
Romance

Release Date
December 5, 1990
Director
Tim Burton
Cast
Johnny Depp , Winona Ryder , Dianne Wiest , Anthony Michael Hall , Kathy Baker , Robert Oliveri
Runtime
105
Main Genre
Drama
Studio
Warner Bros. Pictures
Writers
Tim Burton , Caroline Thompson
Tagline
The story of an uncommonly gentle man.

Summary

A suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's old abandoned castle. The scientist died before replacing the shy man's large shears with real hands. When Peg attempts to bring Edward into her suburban world, to live among her skeptical family (husband Alan Arkin and daughter Winona Ryder) and gossipy neighbors, his hands--dangerous yet capable of creating things of great beauty--make for some awkward, funny, and poignant situations: Edward as a topiary gardener, Edward as a cutting-edge hair stylist. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is a story about tolerance, difference, and creativity as much as it is a story of a young man's coming of age (the young man in question is, of course, a monster). In the ironically surreal world of Edward's suburban community, he must try to find his place in it, and in the world at large.

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