Edward Scissorhands (1990)
Average Rating: 7.6/10
Reviews Counted: 54
Fresh: 49 | Rotten: 5
The first collaboration between Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, Edward Scissorhands is a magical modern fairy tale with gothic overtones and a sweet center.
Average Rating: 6.4/10
Critic Reviews: 10
Fresh: 7 | Rotten: 3
The first collaboration between Johnny Depp and Tim Burton, Edward Scissorhands is a magical modern fairy tale with gothic overtones and a sweet center.
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Movie Info
Tim Burton's Edward Scissorhands opens as an eccentric inventor (Vincent Price) lovingly assembles a synthetic youth named Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward has all the essential ingredients for today's standard body, with the exception of a pair of hands. For what is initially thought to be a temporary period, he is fitted with long, scissor-like extremities that, while able to trim a mean hedge, are hardly conducive to day-to-day life. When the kindly inventor dies, however, Edward is left lonely
Dec 7, 1990 Wide
Dec 18, 2001
20th Century Fox
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Cast
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Johnny Depp
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Winona Ryder
Kim Boggs -
Dianne Wiest
Peg Boggs -
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Alan Arkin
Bill Boggs -
Vincent Price
The Inventor -
Kathy Baker
Joyce Monroe -
Robert Oliveri
Kevin Boggs -
Conchata Ferrell
Helen -
Caroline Aaron
Marge -
Bee Albano
Rich Widow TV -
Carmen J. Alexander
Reporter -
Doyle Anderson
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Harvey Bellman
Neighborhood Extra -
Susan Blommaert
Tinka -
Tammy Boalo
Neighborhood Extra -
Steven Brill
Dishwasher Man -
Jackie Carson
Neighborhood Extra -
Suzanne Chrosniak
Neighborhood Extra -
Andrew B. Clark
Beefy Man -
Gary Clark
Neighborhood Extra -
Andrew Crofton
Pink Girl -
Carol Crumrine
Neighborhood Extra -
Ken de Vaul
Policeman -
Ellin Dennis
Neighborhood Extra -
Kathy Dombo
Other Teen -
Sherry Ferguson
Max's Mother -
Kathy Fleming
Neighborhood Extra -
Alan Fudge
Loan Officer -
Gina Gallagher
Granddaughter -
Jalaine Gallion
Neighborhood Extra -
Michael Gaughan
Policeman -
Miriam Goodspeed
Neighborhood Extra -
Diane L. Green
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Russell Green
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Marti Greenberg
Suzanne -
Cecil Hawkins
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Mary Jane Heath
Neighborhood Extra -
Linda Hess Hess
Older Woman TV -
O-Lan Jones
Esmeralda -
Jack W. Kapfhamer
Neighborhood Extra -
Carol D. Klasek
Neighborhood Extra -
Bill Klein
Neighborhood Extra -
Stuart Lancaster
Retired Man -
Brian Larkin
Max -
Tricia Lloyd
Teenage Girl -
Aaron Lustig
Psychologist -
Marc Macaulay
Reporter -
John McMahon
Denny -
Eileen Meurer
Teenage Girl TV -
Laura Nader
Neighborhood Extra -
Phil Olson
Neighborhood Extra -
Peter Palmer
Editor -
Linda Perri
Cissy -
Donna Pieroni
Blonde TV -
Victoria Price
TV Newswoman -
Lee Ralls
Red Haired Woman TV -
Brett Rice
Reporter -
Joe Sheldon
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James Spicer
Neighborhood Extra -
Tabetha Thomas
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Rosalyn Thomson
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Dick Anthony William...
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Biff Yeager
George -
John Davidson
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Michael Brown
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All Critics (54) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (49) | Rotten (5) | DVD (27)
An original movie, though not Tim Burton's best.
A delightful and delicate comic fable.
It remains curiously hollow.
Top CriticMr. Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small.
Burton's richly entertaining update of the Frankenstein story is the year's most comic, romantic and haunting film fantasy.
Enchantment on the cutting edge, a dark yet heartfelt portrait of the artist as a young mannequin.
Between this masterpiece and that other Ed (Wood), TIm Burton and Johnny Depp are at their dual-career best. Ed Wood is about how insane Hollywood is -- and Edward Scissorhands delivers the pure magic that, once in a rare while, escapes the place.
...perhaps the cinema's most enchanting parable about the misunderstood and alienated artist.
... this sweet 1990 fantasy ... for the first time crystallized the latent themes in the director's work: the notion of the artist as outsider, of skills that make one special but at the same time different.
Fine performances all around, particularly from Depp and the immensely sympathetic Wiest.
Visually, stylistically and emotionally stunning.
It's visually pleasing and an easy film to like, even if it never gets out of shallow water as far as its story goes.
[Burton and Depp] seem to bring out the best in each other.
Burton's movies are fairytales for retarding evolution.
His gothic tones always mask a feeling of wonder and an endearing love for everything that is possible in life and death
Burton's sweet Gothic fairy tale has lost none of its charm.
Johnny Depp and Tim Burton in magical collaboration.
A personal film for Tim Burton, which also serves as a parable about the artist as an outsider, this lovely fairytale began the long, fruitful collaboration with the endlessly versatile Johnny Depp.
Moody and bizarre modern fairytale that works on a number of levels.
Definitely one of Burton's masterpieces, maybe THE one.
A modern fairy tale about a deformed outsider whose innocence and gentle nature make him a freak in the eyes of the community he visits.
A poetic outing by Burton with Depp offering one of his initial outsider performances. Still fun to watch.
Audience Reviews for Edward Scissorhands
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- Kim Boggs: Hold me.
- Edward Scissorhands: I can't.
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- Edward Scissorhands: I am not complete.
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- Bill Boggs: Okay, everyone! Soup's on!
- Edward Scissorhands: *through mouth full of food* I shought it wash shish-cabob.
- Bill Boggs: What?
- Edward Scissorhands: I shought it wash shish-cabob.
- Bill Boggs: It's a figure of speach. You need to learn not to take things so seriously.
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- Edward Scissorhands: I am not complete.
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- Edward Scissorhands: Goodbye.
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- Kim Boggs: Hold me.
- Edward Scissorhands: I can't...
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