Edward Scissorhands is a movie directed by Tim Burton and co-written by Burton and screenwriter Caroline Thompson. It was released in 1990. The movie is a fable set in an exaggeratedly stereotypical vision of American suburbia that intentionally combines clichés from both the 1950s and late 1980s. It also has a central theme of the isolated, misunderstood major character, a theme that recurs in much of Burton's work. It stars Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder. Vincent Price also has a role in the film; his last before his death. Further, many of the motifs and themes of the 1931 film Frankenstein are referenced in Edward Scissorhands.
PLOT
When the neighborhood Avon lady, Mrs. Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest) fails to make any profits in her neighborhood, she goes to the creepy castle on the hill and meets Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward is an artificial man whose inventor (Vincent Price) died before being able to put hands on his creation. Instead Edward has long metal scissor-blades for hands. Mrs. Boggs brings Edward home to her family and thus Edward must adjust to life in the suburbs. He falls in love with Kim Boggs (Winona Ryder), who is frightened of Edward at first, but grows to love him while everybody else in the neighborhood grows to distrust him because of his dangerous condition, especially her boyfriend Jim whom she eventually splits up with after he abandons Edward when they are almost caught stealing. In the end, Edward and Kim go their separate ways, but a love remains between them. The film is told by an elderly Kim Boggs telling her granddaughter the story of Edward. The ending of the movie shows greatly the power of human dignity and love. When Kim Boggs is asked by her granddaughter how does she know Edward is still alive on the castle, the elderly woman answers "Before he came, it never snowed on this town", and then a scene with an Edward that has not aged at all begins and shows how he makes ice sculptures from the attic of his castle. The ice that is being chipped off to give the shape to the sculpture are actually the snowflakes falling on the town who hated him so much.
