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Limb & Spinal Major 
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Edward Scissorhands (1990) |
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Johnny Depp
plays Edward the creation of an inventor |
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(Vincent
Price nicely cast here) who dies before he has |
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completed
the boy. He has scissors instead of hands. The |
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inventor
lives in a gothic mansion which looks down on the |
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ultra normal
suburbia below with its pastel coloured identikit |
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homes. A
fairy tale, fable, whatever you want to call it , used to satirise
average America. After years of isolation in the mansion Depp
is brought down to the plain by an Avon lady (Dianne
Wiest) and introduced to normality. An innocent abroad,
(Mark Twain was good at this sort of thing). |
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All round
the performances are superb though Depp and |
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Ryder stand
out and we're never quite clear if/how Edward fits in. |
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Compare with
Burton's "Beetlejuice" (1988). |
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