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From the Imagination of Tim Burton.

Features: DVD, Widescreen, Aspect Ratio 1.85:1, English, French, Spanish, Subtitled, Dubbed

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.
From Tim Burton comes an unforgettable fairy tale starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest and Vincent Price as the Inventor.

"...amusing and inventive...Burton builds a surrealistically funny cul-de-sac world, and there are some very funny performances..." Desson Howe, The Washington Post
"A classic...Edward Scissorhands is a sharp salute to the oddball in all of us." Jay Scott, The Globe and Mail
"Simple, funny, gorgeous, sad, and sweet, perfect for playing over and over." Lawrence O'Toole, Entertainment Weekly
"A witty comedy of manners that arcs into poignance...One of the brightest, bittersweetest fables of this or any-year." Richard Corliss, Time
"A delightful and delicate comic fable." Variety

Editor's Note

In Tim Burton's EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, a suburban fairy tale with incredibly imaginative sets, an Avon lady, Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), discovers the half-finished experiment--a man/monster named Edward (Johnny Depp)--of a mad scientist (played magically by Vincent Price) living in the neighborhood's old abandoned castle. The scientist died before replacing the shy man's large shears with real hands. When Peg attempts to bring Edward into her suburban world, to live among her skeptical family (husband Alan Arkin and daughter Winona Ryder) and gossipy neighbors, his hands--dangerous yet capable of creating things of great beauty--make for some awkward, funny, and poignant situations: Edward as a topiary gardener, Edward as a cutting-edge hair stylist. EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is a story about tolerance, difference, and creativity as much as it is a story of a young man's coming of age (the young man in question is, of course, a monster). In the ironically surreal world of Edward's suburban community, he must try to find his place in it, and in the world at large.


Plot Summary

A fairy tale, EDWARD SCISSORHANDS is a brilliant story of a man-made experiment: a monster with long shears for hands. Edward lives in the dark and forbidding castle, overlooking a brightly colored suburb, until the Avon lady comes calling one day. Her motherly instincts tell her to take this poor, lonely creature home to live with her family. There, Edward goes through a series of growing experiences, some of them funny, some of them frightening, while trying to find his place in the world.


Features Audio: English DTS HD 5.1 Surround Sound, Dolby Digital 4.0 Surround Sound
Audio: French, Spanish Dolby Digital Stereo
Dubbed: French, Spanish
Interactive Menus
Scene Selection
Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
This Is A Blu-Ray DVD Made For Blue-Laser Format Players Which Produce Higher Quality Picture & Sound

Technical Info

Release Information

Studio: Foxvideo
Release Date: 9/23/2008
Running Time: 105 minutes
Original Release Date: 1990
Catalog ID: 2243537
UPC: 00024543435358
Number of Discs: 1

Audio & Video

Original Language: English
Available Audio Tracks: English, French Dubbed, Spanish Dubbed
Available Subtitles: English, French, Spanish
Video: Color

Aspect Ratio
Widescreen 1.85:1

Cast & Crew Alan Arkin
Anthony Michael Hall
Biff Yeager
Dianne Wiest
Johnny Depp
Kathy Baker
Vincent Price
Winona Ryder
Bo Welch - Production Designer
Caroline Thompson - Screenplay
Colleen Halsey - Editor
Danny Elfman - Original Music By
Richard Halsey - Editor
Richard Hashimoto - Executive Producer
Stefan Czapsky - Cinematographer
Tim Burton - Producer
Tim Burton - Director
Tim Burton - Based On Story By
Tom Duffield - Art Director


Awards

Winner (1992)
British Academy Awards, Bo Welch, Best Production Design


Nominee (1992)
British Academy Awards, Colleen Atwood, Best Costume Design
British Academy Awards, Ve Neill, Best Make Up Artist
British Academy Awards, Stan Winston, Best Special Visual Effects


Nominee (1991)
Golden Globe, Johnny Depp, Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical
Oscar, Ve Neill, Stan Winston, Best Makeup