Edward Scissorhands movie

An uncommonly gentle young man, who happens to have scissors for hands, falls in love with a beautiful teenage girl.

The film features Johnny Depp in the titular role as Edward Scissorhands, Winona Ryder as Kim Boggs and Dianne Weist as Peg Boggs.The plot focuses on Avon lady Peg Boggs, who encounters a shy and quirky looking man named Edward in a decaying, isolated and highly ornate mansion located on a large hill, overlooking a brightly coloured American suburbia. The man, who has hands made of scissors?is adopted by Peg into her own view on the typical American family. There he falls in love with Pegs teenage daughter Kim Boggs, however their innocent relationship could potentially threaten Kims romance with Jim (Anthony Michael Hall) however Edwards presence eventually brings love to everyone in his newly adopted neighbourhood.The film is a fable set in an exaggeratedly stereotypical vision of American suburban life that intentionally combines clichés from both the 1950s and the late 1980s.

It also has a central theme of the isolated, misunderstood major character, a theme that recurs in much of Burtons work. The concept of Edward Scissorhands, as well as the many motifs can be compared to the gothic novel Frankenstein by Mary Shelly and the 1931 film of the same name. When released the film enchanted many viewers and became a box office hit, while today it has become a cult fable for children and adults alike.ProductionThe genesis of Edward Scissorhands came from a childhood drawing of director Tim Burton, which reflected his feelings of isolation and being unable to communicate to people around him such as family and friends. Burton stated that he was often alone, and had trouble retaining friendships. ?I get the feeling people just got this urge to want to leave me alone for some reason, I don?t know exactly why. Burton stated in a 1991 interview with Newsweek magazine that "the movie business, success, life in Hollywood or his childhood, three words repeat themselves with a regularity that would perk up the ears of any dime-store shrink: "scary," "dangerous" and, most frequent of all, "disembodied." As in "Why does everything feel disembodied to me?", talking about his childhood in Burbank, California, and later stated that is the feeling that he was trying to capture in the surreally tacky interiors of the tract homes in the film.Burton talks about his career with Newsweek 1; last accessed May 19, 2007.

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Edward Scissorhands Cast

• Alan Arkin
• Anthony Michael Hall
• Caroline Aaron
• Conchata Ferrell
• Dianne Wiest
• Dick Anthony Williams
• John Davidson
• Kathy Baker
• Linda Perri
• O-Lan Jones
• Robert Oliveri
• Susan Blommaert
• Vincent Price
• Winona Ryder