Taglines: His story will touch you, even though he can’t.
Edward Scissorhands movie storyline. An elderly woman tells her granddaughter a bedtime story of where snow comes from, by telling her the story of a young man named Edward who has scissor blades for hands. As the creation of an old Inventor, Edward was a human-like boy who was in the penultimate stage of work. The Inventor homeschooled Edward, but suffered a fatal heart attack and died just as he was about to fasten hands on Edward.
Some years later, Peg Boggs, a local Avon door-to-door saleswoman, visits the decrepit Gothic mansion on the hill where Edward lives. She finds Edward alone, and though he is initially startled, Peg offers to take him to her home when she realizes he is virtually harmless. Peg introduces Edward to her family: her husband Bill, their young son Kevin, and their teenage daughter Kim. They are initially fearful of Edward but come to see him as a kind person and allow him to stay.
The Boggs’ neighbors are all curious to their new house guest, and the Boggs decided to throw a neighborhood barbecue to welcome Edward. There, most of the neighbors are fascinated by Edward and befriend him, except for the eccentric religious fanatic Esmeralda and Kim’s boyfriend Jim. After the barbecue, Edward repays the neighborhood for their kindness by trimming their hedges into beautiful topiaries. This incidentally leads him to discovering he can craftfully trim and style dogs’ hair, and later as a hair stylist for many of the neighborhood women.
One of the neighbors, Joyce, suggests that she can help Edward open a hair salon and charge money for his unique talent. While scouting for a location, Joyce attempts to seduce him, leaving Edward scared, though Joyce tells the other neighborhood women that he attempted to seduce her, affecting their trust of him. The bank refuses to give Edward a loan for the salon, having no background or financial history.
Jim, jealous of Kim’s growing attraction to Edward, suggests Edward help pick the lock on his parents’ home to acquire a van for himself and Kim. Edward agrees, but when he picks the lock, the burglar alarm goes off, and Jim flees, leaving Edward to be caught by the police. The police find through psychological examination that his period of isolation has left him with no sense of reality or common sense. Edward takes full responsibility for the robbery, telling a surprised Kim he did it because she asked him to. Edward is shunned by the rest of the neighborhood except for the Boggs.
Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American romantic dark fantasy film directed by Tim Burton, produced by Denise Di Novi and Tim Burton, and written by Caroline Thompson from a story by Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson, starring Johnny Depp as an artificial man named Edward, an unfinished creation who has scissor blades instead of hands. The young man is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Additional roles were played by Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price and Alan Arkin.
Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Directed by: Tim Burton
Starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, Alan Arkin, Caroline Aaron, O-Lan Jones, Conchata Ferrell
Screenplay by: Caroline Thompson
Production Design by: Bo Welch
Cinematography by: Stefan Czapsky
Film Editing by: Colleen Halsey, Richard Halsey
Costume Design by: Colleen Atwood
Set Decoration by: Cheryl Carasik
Art Direction by: Tom Duffield
Music by: Danny Elfman
Distributed by: 20th Century Fox
Release Date: December 14, 1990
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