Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
by Tim Burton
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Actor: Anthony Michael Hall, Dianne Wiest, Johnny Depp, Kathy Baker, Winona RyderDirector: Tim Burton
Brand: DEPP,JOHNNY
Cinematographer: Stefan Czapsky
Producer: Tim Burton
Writer: Tim Burton
Producer: Caroline Thompson
Writer: Caroline Thompson
Producer: Denise Di Novi
Producer: Richard Hashimoto
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
DVD Reviews of Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
DVD Review: TIM BURTON'S MASTERPIECE
Summary: 5 Stars
Edward Scissorhands is without question director Tim Burton's masterpiece. While the director has made many creative and exciting movies before and after the film, such as BeetleJuice, The Nighmare Before Christmas, Batman and the remake of Planet of the Apes, none of his films come close to even touching Edward Scissorhands.
While Burton's other films manage to grab the senses on a visual level instead of an emmotional level, Edward Scissorhands does both, with a combination of its gothic sets and special effects, stunning musical score by Danny Elfman (his best also) and empathetic characters that resemble you and me; characters that we care about.
Edward Scissorhands is one of the greatest films ever made.
DVD Review: A MEMORABLE FANTASY
Summary: 5 Stars
EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is the kind of fairy tale one might have expected from a Charles Addams. It's like a skewed version of Frankenstein-as-a-misunderstood-teen-visits-Barbieland. Burton's blending of fantasy, horror, and comedy, with just the right touch of longing, and sensitive sweetness is wonderful. The sets are superb, and Elfman's music hits just the right chord.
This was the movie that made me a Johnny Depp fan. He is pitch perfect as the incomplete creation of an old inventor ( the late, great, Vincent Price ). If you like dark, and twisted fantasy this is definitely a 'must have.'
DVD Review: One of my favorites
Summary: 5 Stars
This move is so good.It is definitely one of my favorite movies ever. It is an amazing movie and everybody should watch it at least once, or more like 14 times like me.DVD Review: Edward
Summary: 1 Stars
I never recieved this product due to some problems with the disk. I still received a full refund and someone contacted me promptly about the situation. DVD Review: Beautiful Movie
Summary: 5 Stars
This movie has just the right mixture of humor, elegance, pain, love, and Johnny Depp to create a classic.
Depp plays Edward, a machine created by the late scientist of the castle in suburbia, has scissors for hands, since he was modeled after a cookie dough slicer. Edward is a gentle, sweet, innocent character who is generally mute and expresses a lot of his words with body language. He is adopted by the loving and slightly weird make-up agent Peg Boggs,and he lives with her and her typical suberbia husband Bob, befriending their son Kevin and falling in love with their daughter, Kim. At first Kim does not like Edward but after Edward is asked by Kim, forced by her mean boyfriend Jeff, to brake into a house to get money and Edward is blamed but he does not tell the police who made him do it, she realizes how mean Jeff is and how gentle and loving Edward is. She slowly begins to fall in love with Edward, and this makes Jeff jealous and angry. On Christmas night he gets drunk and goes to harass Kim, and sees Edward accidentally cut Kim's hand while making a snow-angel carving in ice. Edward runs to the castle where Kim follows, as does Jeff, and there is a struggle, ending with Jeff hurting Kim and so Edward stabs Jeff with his scissor-hands. Then he and Kim give fond good byes, with Kim kissing his gently on the lips for the first and and she sadly leaves and makes it look like both Edward and Jeff are dead.
It is a remarkably touching, beautiful, and heart warming story. It made me cry slightly to see Edward and Kim in a doomed love.
So you should buy it, 'cause it's a classic.
~~Moonwhisker~~
Description of Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
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.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
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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