EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX

CAST


Edward Scissorhands.............................JOHNNY DEPP
Kim............................................WINONA RYDER
Peg............................................DIANNE WIEST
Jim....................................ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL
Joyce...........................................KATHY BAKER
Kevin........................................ROBERT OLIVERI
Helen......................................CONCHATA FERRELL
Marge........................................CAROLINE AARON
Officer Allen........................DICK ANTHONY WIILLIAMS
Esmeralda.......................................O-LAN JONES
The Inventor..................................VINCENT PRICE
Bill.............................................ALAN ARKIN
Tinka....................................SUSAN J. BLOMMAERT
Cissy...........................................LINDA PERRY
Host-TV.......................................JOHN DAVIDSON
George..........................................BIFF YEAGER
Suzanne.....................................MARTI GREENBERG
Max............................................BRYAN LARKIN
Denny..........................................JOHN McMAHON


A TIM BURTON FILM


Directed by......................................TIM BURTON Produced by...................DENISE Di NOVI and TIM BURTON Screenplay by.............................CAROLINE THOMPSON Story by.......................................TIM BURTON & CAROLINE THOMPSON Executive Producer .......................RICHARD HASHIMOTO Director of Photography......................STEFAN CZAPSKY Production Designer................................BO WELCH Edited by............................RICHARD HALSEY, A.C.E. Special Makeup and Scissorhands Effects Produced by............................STAN WINSTON Costume Designer.............................COLLEEN ATWOOD Casting by..................................VICTORIA THOMAS Music by.......................................DANNY ELFMAN Associate Producer........................CAROLINE THOMPSON Unit Production Manager ......................BILL P. SCOTT First Assistant Director........................JERRY FLECK Second Assistant Director ...................FRANCIS CONWAY


In a large, Gothic-looking hilltop castle overlooking a pastel- coloured suburbia, Avon Lady Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest) finds Edward Scissorhands (Johnny Depp) living all alone. The unfinished creation of an inventor (Vincent Price) who died of a heart attack before he could complete the job, Edward has everything a human should have, except, instead of hands, he has a pair of lethal shears. Feeling sorry for Edward, Peg removes him to her suburban home to live with her family.

Edward is soon accepted into the neighbourhood, revealing himself to be gifted at topiary and hairdressing. He is attracted to Peg's cheerleader daughter Kim (Winona Ryder), but she only has eyes for her brutish boyfriend, Jim (Anthony Michael Hall), until he tricks Edward into helping him rob his parent's house and Edward is caught by the police and thrown in jail.

Later when Edward refuses the advances of Joyce (Kathy Baker), the local nymphomaniac, she turns the community against him, and he is chased to his mansion where he fights and kills Jim. Kim is convinces everybody that Edward was also killed, leaving him alone in his castle once again. Synopsis by Nigel Goodall



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