STARRING:
Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall,
Alan Arkin, Kathy Baker
1990, 98 Minutes, Directed by: Tim Burton
Description:A young man named Edward (Johnny Depp) is created by an
inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give
the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic
castle that just happens to be perched above a pastel-colored suburb inhabited
by breadwinning husbands and frustrated housewives straight out of the 1950s.
One day, Peg (Dianne Wiest), the local Avon lady, comes calling. Finding Edward
alone, she kindly invites him to come home with her, where she hopes to help him
with his pasty complexion and those nasty nicks he's given himself with his
razor-sharp fingers. Soon Edward's skill with topiary sculpture and hair design
make him popular in the neighborhood--but the mood turns just as swiftly against
the outsider when he starts to feel his own desires, particularly for Peg's
daughter Kim (Winona Ryder). —
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Whimsical fantasy retelling of the Frankenstein story with an
astute visual sense by director Tim (Batman,
Beetlejuice) Burton. Johnny Depp is excellent as the Chaplinesque title character and
the support cast is good too.
