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Edward Scissorhands
Edward scissors hand as created by a scientist in a castle far from the community, but unfortunately for Edward the scientist dies before completing his inventions. This leaves Edward alone in the castle until he is been discovered by a woman ho brings him to the society.
26 March 1934, New York City, New York, USA
13 December 1941, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
1922
28 April 1978, Los Angeles, California, USA
January 01, 2000
The film has an unapologetically adolescent purity about it that transcends what would ordinarily be the shortcomings of its script.
May 20, 2003
Mr. Burton invests awe-inspiring ingenuity into the process of reinventing something very small.
May 08, 2008
Fine performances all around, particularly from Depp and the immensely sympathetic Wiest.
July 25, 2008
...perhaps the cinema's most enchanting parable about the misunderstood and alienated artist.
July 25, 2011
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.
May 08, 2008
A delightful and delicate comic fable.
July 07, 2008
... 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.
January 26, 2006
It remains curiously hollow.
May 12, 2001
Burton's richly entertaining update of the Frankenstein story is the year's most comic, romantic and haunting film fantasy.
June 17, 2008
An original movie, though not Tim Burton's best.
December 17, 2014
Burton's modern fairytale has an almost palpably personal feel: it is told gently, subtly and with infinite sympathy for an outsider who charms the locals but then inadvertently arouses their baser instincts.