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Edward Scissorhands, 1990

Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder

Directed by: Tim Burton

Written by: Caroline Thompson

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 105 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:8.0

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The mood of Edward Scissorhands is gloomy, offbeat, and atmospheric. The plot centers around teaching the ways of the world, a tragic hero, and suburban life. It is a romance, fantasy, and drama movie. Stylistically, Edward Scissorhands is gothic, is fairytale-like, and is surreal. The pacing is slow. It takes place, at least partly, in the suburbs. Edward Scissorhands happens in the 1950s. The movie is known for being original, a modern classic, and an award winner. It is especially suggested for a date night and a family outing.

Summary of Edward Scissorhands

In Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands, 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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Language:	English
Country:	USA
Release date:	6 December 1990
Runtime:	105 min

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Johnny Depp

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Winona Ryder

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Variety

A delightful and delicate comic fable. Full Review

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TV Guide

The theme--that just beyond the edge of the perfectly normal lies the truly bizarre--is realized with intelligence and visual flair. Full Review

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Disappointing

After all the references I'd heard to this movie, and knowing Tim Burton, I was expecting to be impressed, and I was not. The story is too far-fetched to even be called fantasy. "Fable" is more like it. And the moral of the fable seems to be... Read and rate it

24.December.2011
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by: pmail
pmail rated this movie4/10Disappointing

Naturmystikk - Edward Scissorhands

Simple and sweet yet of epical proportions. Read and rate it

15.March.2010
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by: Streetlight of Amber
Streetlight of Amber rated this movie10/10Must See

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