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Edward Scissorhands

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Edward Scissorhands is a movie directed by Tim Burton released in 1990. The movie is a fable set in an exaggerated stereotype of both the 1950s and 1990s. It also has a central theme of the isolated, misunderstood major character; a theme that shows up in a lot of Tim Burton's work. It stars Johnny Depp and Winona Ryder.

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When the neighborhood Avon lady, Mrs. Peg Bogg, played by (Dianne Weist) fails to make any profits in her neighborhood, she goes to the creepy house on the hill and meets Edward (Johnny Depp). Edward is a artificial man whose inventor (Vincent Price) dies before being able to put hands on his creation. Instead Edward has scissors for hands. Mrs. Bogg 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 hates Edward at first, but grows to love him while everybody else in the neighborhood - even her own parents - grows to distrust him because of his dangerous handicap in the end they go theire seperate ways but a love remains between them.

Johnny Depp would end up becoming a regular in Tim Burton movies, playing Ed Wood and signing on to do the remake of Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory.