Kim confesses her love to Edward and kisses him before she departs, leaving Edward alone. Enraged, Edward stabs Jim in the stomach and pushes him from a window of the mansion to his death. Edward refuses to fight back until he sees Jim slap Kim as she attempts to intervene. In the mansion, Jim ambushes Edward and fights with him.
Kim races after Edward while Jim obtains a handgun and follows Kim.
Witnesses accuse Edward of attacking Kevin when Jim assaults him, Edward defends himself, cutting Jim's arm before fleeing to his mansion. Jim's drunken friend drives him to Kim's house and nearly runs over Kevin, but Edward pushes Kevin to safety while inadvertently cutting him. She asks him to hold her, but Edward hesitates, afraid of hurting her. Kim's parents go out to find Edward while she stays behind in case he returns. Meanwhile, Edward flees in a rage, destroying his works and scaring Esmeralda until he is calmed by a wandering dog. Jim accuses Edward of intentionally harming her, but Kim, disgusted and fed up with Jim's jealous behavior towards Edward, breaks up with him. Jim arrives suddenly, calling out to Edward, surprising him and causing him to accidentally cut Kim's hand. Consequently, he is shunned by the entire neighborhood except for the Boggs family.Īt Christmas, Edward carves an angelic ice sculpture modeled after Kim the ice shavings are thrown into the air and fall like snow, something that never happened before. Edward takes responsibility for the robbery, telling Kim he did it because she asked him to. The police determine that a lifetime of isolation has left Edward without any sense of reality or common sense. Edward agrees, but when he picks the lock, a burglar alarm is triggered. Jealous of Kim's attraction to Edward, Jim suggests Edward pick the lock on his parents' home to obtain a van for Jim and Kim. The bank denies Edward a loan as he does not have a background or financial history. Joyce lies to the neighborhood women about it, reducing their trust in him. While scouting a location, Joyce attempts to seduce him, but scares him away.
One of the neighbors, Joyce, offers to help Edward open a hair salon. Most of the neighbors are fascinated by Edward and befriend him, except for the eccentric religious fanatic Esmeralda and Kim's boyfriend Jim.Įdward repays the neighborhood for their kindness by trimming their hedges into topiaries, progressing to grooming dogs and later styling the hair of the neighborhood women. As their neighbors are curious about the new houseguest, the Boggs throw a neighborhood barbecue welcoming him. Edward falls in love with Kim, despite her initial fear of him. Peg introduces Edward to her husband Bill, their young son Kevin, and their teenage daughter Kim. Peg finds Edward alone and offers to take him to her home after discovering he is virtually harmless. The inventor homeschooled Edward but died from a heart attack before giving Edward hands, leaving him unfinished. The creation of an old inventor, Edward is an ageless humanoid. Many years earlier, Peg Boggs, a local door-to-door Avon saleswoman, tries to sell at the decrepit Gothic mansion where Edward lives. One evening, an elderly woman tells her granddaughter the bedtime story of a young man named Edward who has scissor blades for hands. Both Burton and Elfman consider Edward Scissorhands their most personal and favorite work. The film received numerous nominations at the Academy Awards, British Academy Film Awards, and the Saturn Awards, as well as winning the Hugo Award for Best Dramatic Presentation. The film also marks the fourth collaboration between Burton and film score composer Danny Elfman, and was Vincent Price's last major role.Įdward Scissorhands was released to a positive reception from critics and was a financial success, grossing over four times its $20 million budget. Edward Scissorhands was then fast tracked after Burton's critical and financial success with Batman. During pre-production of Beetlejuice, Caroline Thompson was hired to adapt Burton's story into a screenplay, and the film began development at 20th Century Fox after Warner Bros. It tells the story of an unfinished artificial humanoid who has scissor blades instead of hands that is taken in by a suburban family and falls in love with their teenage daughter.īurton conceived Edward Scissorhands from his childhood upbringing in suburban Burbank, California. It was produced by Burton and Denise Di Novi, written by Caroline Thompson from a story by her and Burton, and starring Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy Baker, Vincent Price, and Alan Arkin. Edward Scissorhands is a 1990 American fantasy gothic romance film directed by Tim Burton.
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