Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
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Actor: Anthony Michael Hall, Dianne Wiest, Johnny Depp, Kathy Baker, Winona RyderBrand: Fox
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 4.0; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 4.0; French (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, THX, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.85:1
Running Time: 105 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-09-05
Audience Rating: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: 20th Century Fox
Movie Reviews of Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
Movie Review: Soup's on! I thought this was shish kabob?
Summary: 5 Stars
Edward Scissorhands is an example of the magic that can happen when story, director, cast and crew all come together to create a classic. Tim Burton has created an alternative universe that is at once reassuringly strange and oddly familiar. It is Suburbia as seen through the eyes of an outsider: bland and identical but for their different shades of pastel tract homes. From the first frame onward I was hooked on this strange tale. On paper, who would think the idea would work? A strange boy created by a mad inventor (Vincent Price) who dies before finishing his creation and leaves him with scissors instead of hands? I was totally willing to suspend my disbelief and revel in the superb performance of John Christopher Depp II as Edward Scissorhands, and marvel at the exquisite direction of director Tim Burton. Burton really has a great visual sense, especially when he puts it in the service of his inner child. I would really like to meet his imaginary friend, but feel like I already have, and his name is Edward Scissorhands, alias Johnny Depp.
What a way to kick off the decade of the 90's and bid adieu to the 80's with a character who would make the ultimate punk rocker, or is he more Goth? The pale white make-up and asymmetrical fright wig bring to mind Robert Smith of The Cure, but the black leather bondage garb is oh so punk rock. And what could be more punk than scissors for hands and the resultant facial scars? Depp conveys the naive innocence deep within this scary package. He is the ultimate lost soul who deep down inside just wants to be loved. When asked if he is a romantic Depp replied "Am I a romantic? I've seen Wuthering Heights (1939) ten times. I'm a romantic." What is his method, his process when acting? "I don't pretend to be captain weird. I just do what I do."
[On Vincent Price] "One of the most incredible moments I've ever had was sitting in Vincent's trailer . . . I was showing him this first-edition book I have of the complete works of [Edgar Allan Poe], with really amazing illustrations. Vincent was going nuts over the drawings, and he started talking about The Tomb of Ligeia (1964). Then he closed the book and began to recite it to me in this beautiful voice, filling the room with huge sounds. Such passion! I looked in the book later, and it was verbatim. Word perfect. It was a great moment. I'll never forget that."
[On the Edward Scissorhands experience] I can remember when I finished Edward Scissorhands (1990), looking in the mirror as the girl was doing my make-up for the last time and thinking -- it was like the 90th or 89th day of shooting -- and I remember looking and going, "Wow, this is it. I'm saying goodbye to this guy, I'm saying goodbye to Edward Scissorhands". You know, it was kind of sad. But in fact, I think they're all still somehow in there.
After Edward is found and brought home by Avon saleslady Peg (Diane Wiest), he falls hard for her daughter, Kim (Winona Ryder). Winona Ryder is stunningly beautiful as the young Kim. The only thing she steals here is Edward's (and my) heart. At first she is frightened and repulsed but she eventually does grow to love the strange hedge clipper. In real life she dated Johnny Depp for many years. He had a tattoo that said "Winona Forever" and after they broke up, he had it reduced to "Wino forever."
The rest of the cast is great as well. Diane Wiest (pronounced Wee-st) is great as Avon representative Peg Boggs. Alan Arkin is great as her husband. Anthony Michael Hall has come a long way from either 16 Candles or Six Degrees of Separation. Here he plays Jim, Kim's boyfriend, who is a bully, a downright brutish thug, even. The housewives of the town are a little too desperate to fit in on Wisteria Lane, but perfect for Burton's suburban milieu. Stand outs among them are Kathy Baker as red headed hot tomato Joyce, and Conchata Ferrell as hard hearted Helen. She is now familiar as the housekeeper Berta from the television program Two and a Half Men, with Charlie Sheen and Jon Cryer; still filming new episodes while also seen daily in syndication.
To top it all off, Vincent Price caps off a stunningly illustrious career with this masterpiece that seems tailor made for his unique talent. He has a small but pivotal role as the mad inventor and creator of Edward. It was the omega for Price, but for Depp the alpha of his long strange journey.
Peg Boggs: Why are you hiding back there? You don't have to hide from me - I'm Peg Boggs, your local Avon representative and I'm as harmless as cherry pie...
[Sees Edward come toward her]
Peg Boggs: Oh - I can see that I've disturbed you. I'll just be going now...
Edward: Don't go.
Peg Boggs: [sees his scissor hands] Oh, my. What happened to you?
Edward: I'm not finished.
FILMS AND ROLES OF WINONA RYDER
A Scanner Darkly (2006) .... Donna Hawthorne
Beetlejuice (20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (1988) .... Lydia
Reality Bites (1994) .... Lelaina Pierce
Heathers (1989) .... Veronica Sawyer
FILMS AND ROLES OF JOHNNY DEPP
Cry Baby (Director's Cut) (1990) .... Wade "Cry-Baby" Walker
Benny and Joon (1993) .... Sam
Ed Wood (Special Edition) (1994) .... Ed Wood
FILMS AND ROLES OF ANTHONY MICHAEL HALL
The Breakfast Club (1985) .... Brian Ralph Johnson
Sixteen Candles (1984) .... Farmer Ted, 'The Geek'
Six Degrees of Separation (1993) .... Trent Conway
FILMS AND ROLES OF VINCENT PRICE
Dr. Phibes Rises Again (1972) .... Dr. Anton Phibes
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971) .... Dr. Anton Phibes
The Oblong Box (1969) .... Sir Julian Markham
Dr. Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine (1965) .... Dr. Goldfoot
The Tomb of Ligeia (1964) .... Verden Fell
The Masque of the Red Death (1964) .... Prince Prospero
The Haunted Palace (1963) .... Charles Dexter Ward (Joseph Curwen)
Diary of a Madman (1963) .... Simon Cordier
The Raven (1963) .... Dr. Erasmus Craven
Tales of Terror (1962) .... Fortunato/Valdemar/Locke
Confessions of an Opium Eater (1962) .... Gilbert De Quincey
Pit and the Pendulum (1961) .... Nicholas / Sebastian Medina
House of Usher (1960) .... Roderick Usher
The Bat (1959) .... Dr. Malcolm Wells
Return of the Fly (1959) .... Francois Delambre
The Tingler (1959) .... Dr. Warren Chapin
The Big Circus (1959) .... Hans Hagenfeld
House on Haunted Hill (1959) .... Frederick Loren
The Fly (1958) .... François Delambre
House of Wax (1953) .... Prof. Henry Jarrod
Dragonwyck (1946) .... Nicholas Van Ryn
Shock (1946) .... Dr. Richard Cross
Leave Her to Heaven (1945) .... Russell Quinton
A Royal Scandal (1945) .... Marquis de Fleury
The Keys of the Kingdom (1944) .... Angus Mealey
Laura (1944) .... Shelby Carpenter
Wilson (1944) .... William Gibbs McAdoo
The Eve of St. Mark (1944) .... Pvt. Francis Marion
The Song of Bernadette (1943) .... Prosecutor Vital Dutour
Hudson's Bay (1941) .... King Charles II
Brigham Young (1940) .... Joseph Smith
The House of the Seven Gables (1940) .... Clifford Pyncheon
Green Hell (1940) .... David Richardson
The Invisible Man Returns (1940) .... Geoffrey Radcliffe
Tower of London (1939) .... Duke of Clarence
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939) .... Sir Walter Raleigh
Service de Luxe (1938) .... Robert Wade
Bill: Soup's on!
Edward: I thought this was shish kabob.
Summary of Edward Scissorhands (Widescreen Anniversary Edition)
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