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
Edward Scissorhands -
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
Neighborhood Extra -
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
Neighborhood Extra -
Russell Green
Neighborhood Extra -
Marti Greenberg
Suzanne -
Cecil Hawkins
Neighborhood Extra -
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
Neighborhood Extra -
James Spicer
Neighborhood Extra -
Tabetha Thomas
Little Girl on Bike -
Rosalyn Thomson
Young Woman TV -
Dick Anthony Williams
Officer Allen -
Biff Yeager
George -
John Davidson
TV Host -
Michael Brown
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All Critics (54) | Top Critics (10) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (6) | 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.
Every time I see this film, I see more things to admire in it.
[Burton and Depp] seem to bring out the best in each other.
Burton's movies are fairytales for retarding evolution.
...a wonderful, sadly beautiful concept taken a little too far and too obviously in its sentimental moralizing. (15th Anniversary Edition)
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.
Audience Reviews for Edward Scissorhands
Super Reviewer
At it's core this is a sweet and harmless fantasy about a good hearted outsider, but Burton rubs the moral of the story to a viewers nose and the end result feels very forced. You can see where it is heading for from miles away and maybe it was intended to be an Frankenstein - homage from the very beginning. The idea of Edward Scissorhands is centuries old and it could also been told as a typical witch hunt tale. Only difference is that Burton places those old themes into a American suburb and turns them into something more of his own.
All the characters of this film are pure caricatures and while some of them has certainly elements from real persons these characters never really become anything more than a cardboard drafts. They just feel too written for their own good. There is not a much for actors like Johnny Depp, Alan Arkin, Dianne Wiest or Winona Ryder to do with their characters. I know that these comicbook style characters are all intentionally made but still it does not take away the fact that they harm this films overall tone and works against it.
Tim Burton is an extremely talented director and is certainly one of the masters of cinema. Edward Scissorhands is just not that succesfull as a film and ends up being a too sweet and too predictable for its own good. For me this fantasy from Mr. Burton is not that impressive or attractive than most of his other fantasies that are mostly much more inventive and enchanting.
Super Reviewer
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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.
- Kim Boggs: I Love you.
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- Kim Boggs: Hold me.
- Edward Scissorhands: I can't...
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- Peg Boggs: The light concealing cream goes on first. Then you blend, and blend, and blend. Blending is the secret.
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Foreign Titles
- Edward aux mains d'argent (FR)
- El joven manos de tijeras (ES)
