Genre: Drama / Fantasy / Romance Director(s): Tim Burton Release Date: 05 December 1990 Movie rating: 7.9

After he had tried his hand in the action genre with the highly successful “Batman”, Tim Robins went in a completely different direction with his next film. “Edward Scissorhand” is a 1995 dark romantic fantasy starring Johnny Depp as an artificial man named Edward. Edward was created by an old inventor (Vincent Price), who died before “Finishing” Edward, thus leaving him with scissors instead of hands. Many years later, traveling saleswoman Peg Boggs (Diane Wiest) visits the dilapidated hillside mansion in which Edward resides. She takes pity on him and takes him to her home, where he becomes fast friends with Peg’s husband Bill (Alan Arkin) and their young son Kevin (Robert Oliveri), and eventually falls in love with their teenage daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Due to his hedge trimming and hair cutting ability Edward is an instant hit in the neighborhood. But he also makes two enemies in Joyce, a middle aged neighborhood seductress whose advances Edward rejects in panic, and Jim, Kim’s jealous boyfriend. After Jim sets him up for a burglary and Joyce claims he tried to rape her, Edward becomes an outcast. When he accidentally cuts Kim on the arm he flees to his old mansion. Kim breaks up with Jim and goes to the mansion to convince Edward to come back, but Jim follows and attacks them. Edward kills Jim and Kim, after saying goodbye to Edward, convinces the townsfolk that both Jim and Edward died when the roof of the mansion collapsed.

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