Edward Scissorhands

The local Avon lady, Peg Boggs, is running out of customers and luck, until she tries the creepy castle at the end of the cul-de-sac. Here she meets an usual, quiet, and lonely man with scissors for hands. Peg decides to take him home and introduces him to her fantasy-land of a neighborhood which resembles a loudly colored 1950's suburbia. He learns to adapt to his new life and is charming neighbors with his ability to sculpt hedges and style hair. The one person he truly longs for is the girl that can see beyond Edwards talents and into his soul. But will the others see beyond the scissors and accept him as a person?

100 mins.

Johnny Depp: Edward Scissorhands
Diane Weist: Peg Boggs
Winona Ryder: Kim Boggs
Anthony Michael Hall: Jim
Allan Arkin: Bill Boggs
Vincent Price: Inventor
Kathy Baker: Joyce Monroe
Robert Oliveri: Kevin Boggs
Conchata Ferrell: Helen
Caroline Aaron: Marge
O-Lan Jones: Esmeralda
Dick Anthony Williams: Officer Allen
Susan Blommaert: Tinka
Linda Perri: Cissy
John Davidson: TV Host

"Warners just didn't get it...The idea actually came from a drawing I did a long time ago. It was just an image that I liked. It came subconsciously and was was linked to a character who wants to touch but can't, who was both creative and destructive - those sort of contradictions can create a kind of ambivilance. It was very much linked to a feeling. The manifestation of the image made itself apparent and probably came to surface when I was a teenager, because it is a very teenage thing. It had to do with relationships. I just felt I couldn't communicate. It was the feeling that your image and how people perceive you are at odds with what is inside you, which is a fairly common feeling. I think a lot of people feel that way to some degree, because it's frustrating and sad to feel a certain way but for it not to come through. So the idea had to do with image and perception."
-Tim Burton, Burton on Burton