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Edward Scissorhands [Blu-ray]
starring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker
directed by: Tim Burton

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Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: Blu-ray
Brand: TWENTIETH CENTURY FOX HOME ENT
EAN: 0024543435358
Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DTS Surround Sound, Subtitled
Label: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Manufacturer: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 09, 2007
Running Time: 105 minutes
Sales Rank: 11554
Studio: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Theatrical Release Date: 1990

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Description:
Once upon a time in a castle high on a hill lived an inventor whose greatest creation was named Edward. Although Edward had an irresistible charm, he wasn't quite perfect. The inventor's sudden death left him unfinished, with sharp shears of metal for hands. Edward lived alone in the darkness until one day a kind Avon lady took him home to live with her family. And so began Edward's fantastical adventures in a pastel paradise known as Suburbia.

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Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer

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Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavor of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s. One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). Most of director Tim Burton's movies (such as Pee Wee's Big Adventure, Beetlejuice, Batman) are visual spectacles with elements of fantasy, but Edward Scissorhands is more tender and personal than the others. Edward's wild black hair is much like Burton's, suggesting that the character represents the director's own feelings of estrangement and co-option. Johnny Depp, making his first successful leap from TV to film, captures Edward's childlike vulnerability even while his physical posture evokes horror icons like the vampire in Nosferatu and the sleepwalker in The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Classic horror films, at their heart, feel a deep sympathy for the monsters they portray; simply and affectingly, Edward Scissorhands lays that heart bare. --Bret Fetzer

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Average Rating: out of 5 stars

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- 5 Stars for Tim Burton
I saw this wonderful movie in 1990 when it first came out. I was already a Tim Burton fan of sorts, but this made me a Burton fanatic. I saw it first with my wife, and I remember thinking at the very beginning, when Danny Elfman's haunting, beautiful score was only a few notes old, that I was going to love this film. And I did. It just hit me right in the heart, in the most vulnerable, deepest part of my soul. I know that sounds pretentious, but it's the best I can do with my limited writing ability. Now understand, I was 39 years old at the time, a pipefitter/welder by trade, certainly not someone people would think of as "sensitive" or "artistic" by nature. I've been in more than my share of fistfights, ride a Harley, and love guns, power tools, and anything that explodes. But by the end of Edward Scissorhands, especially at the Ice Dance scene, I was sobbing like a little girl. My wife had to help me out of the ... Read More

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- a visual feast for the eyes
This movie is visually amazing. It is genius how Tim Burton brings out light and dark so vividly on screen. The contrast in color depicts mood so perfectly. Johnny Depp shows us early on in his career why he is the Best actor alive today and continues up to today's standards. You look at his face and his eyes as he acts you believe hes a scared guy shut away from others all his life. You see the kindness in his heart by his gentle movements and facial expressions. And although Winona Ryder has blond or red hair shes still amazingly cute. She too give a great performance in her tone of voice. The best scene of contrast would be when you have her in a white dress with her light hair in the arms of Depp with his dark black hair and his black leather suit. Absolutely amazing. This movie speaks for itself visually with no special effects of today's movies. A true fairy tale classic.

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- A masterpiece of so many levels...
I am a fan of Tim Burton, not a huge one, but a fan none-the-less. I have always admired his visual style and his visionary status; that is to say that I admire the way he is always true to himself. There is no director out there like Burton, and thus each and every Burton film is undoubtedly a Burton classic. There is no question when one watches a Tim Burton film that it is without doubt a Tim Burton film.

No use beating a dead horse; I'll move on.

With all that said, `Edward Scissorhands' is without doubt Tim Burton at his very finest. Everything about this film lives and breathes like a Burton fantasy, but at its heart it actually surpasses everything he's every done and delivers a shockingly relevant story of humanity. That's one thing that I've always teetered on with Burton. Like I said, I am a fan of his visual style, but as a whole I've never felt a serious connection to his ... Read More

Rating:

- Great movie
This is a great movie! Depp plays a tragic character who is trying to fit in to the "pleasantville like" town. Although this movie can be sad at times, there are plenty of funny scenes.

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