| | | His story will touch you, even though he can't.
Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, Dolby Digital (4.0); Dolby Surround Sound, Theatrical Trailer, Audio Commentary, Featurette, Concept Art, English, Spanish Subtitled
A "delightful and delicate comic fable" (Variety about an inventor's charming, albeit unfinished, human creation with sharp shears of metal instead of hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia. From director Tim Burton comes an unforgettale tale starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest and Vincent Price.
"A delightful and delicate comic fable." Variety
Editor's Note
In Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's old abandoned castle. The scientist died before replacing the shy man's large shears with real hands. When Peg attempts to bring Edward into her suburban world, to live among her skeptical family (husband Alan Arkin and daughter Winona Ryder) and gossipy neighbors, his hands--dangerous yet capable of creating things of great beauty--make for some awkward, funny, and poignant situations: Edward as a topiary gardener, Edward as a cutting-edge hair stylist. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is a story about tolerance, difference, and creativity as much as it is a story of a young man's coming of age (the young man in question is, of course, a monster). In the ironically surreal world of Edward's suburban community, he must try to find his place in it, and in the world at large.
Plot Summary
A fairy tale, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is a brilliant story of a man-made experiment: a monster with long shears for hands. Edward lives in the dark and forbidding castle, overlooking a brightly colored suburb, until the Avon lady comes calling one day. Her motherly instincts tell her to take this poor, lonely creature home to live with her family. There, Edward goes through a series of growing experiences, some of them funny, some of them frightening, while trying to find his place in the world.
| Features | Widescreen Presentation | | Scene Selection | | Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Original Theatrical Trailer | | TV Spots | | Interactive 3-D Menus | | Audio Commentary Tracks By Tim Burton And Danny Elfman | | Featurette | | Concept Art | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 4.0, English, French Dolby Digital Surround |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Foxvideo |
| Release Date: 6/3/2003 |
| Running Time: 104 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 1990 | | Catalog ID: 2000537 | | UPC: 00024543005377 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English [CC], English, French Dubbed | | Available Subtitles: English, Spanish | | Video: Color |
Aspect Ratio | | 1.85:1 |
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| | Professional Reviews | Rolling Stone
"...The year's most comic, romantic and haunting film fantasy....Burton is a true movie visionary with uncommon insights into hearts in torment..." 01/10/1991 p.53-4Sight and Sound
"...Eye-catching, ingenious..." 07/01/1991 p.42 Los Angeles Times
"...The whole film has a tender underlining and a marvelous fun-house look and pace....Gentleness is a nice quality to have back in movies. Along with some fairy-tale pain, longing and hilarity, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS has it..." 12/14/1990 p.F1 Total Film
"...A fairytale with an edge....Just as affecting a decade on..." 12/01/2000 p.112 Total Film
"Depp's oddball hero transforms cute, quirky sentimentality into emotional palatability..." 07/01/2006 p.128 Wall Street Journal
"[T]he best part of Tim Burton's sweet-tempered fantasy is that the hero is played by the ever-surprising Johnny Depp..." 05/01/2009 Washington Post 7 of 10
...amusing and inventive...with amusing nods to Mary Shelley, MTV, the Brothers Grimm and Ozzie and Harriet... Burton builds a surrealistically funny cul-de-sac world, and there are some very funny performances from grownups Dianne Wiest, Kathy Baker, and Alan Arkin. - Desson Howe
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