Edward Scissorhands

An inventor (Vincent Price) creates Edward (Johnny Depp), a gentle artificial man, but dies of a heart attack before he can replace Edward's scissor-blade hands with real ones. Edward lives alone in the gothic castle on the hill overlooking a cheerful pastel suburb.

Peg Boggs (Dianne Wiest), an Avon saleswoman, ventures up to the castle and takes pity on Edward, bringing him home. He's initially welcomed — his extraordinary skill makes him a neighborhood sensation as a topiary artist and hairdresser. Peg's daughter Kim (Winona Ryder), startled at first, slowly falls for him.

The suburb's warmth curdles. Joyce (Kathy Baker), a bored housewife, makes a pass at Edward and turns hostile when he recoils. Kim's jealous boyfriend Jim (Anthony Michael Hall) manipulates Edward into breaking into his own family's house, getting Edward arrested. The neighborhood turns on him.

Jim, drunk and violent, attacks his own sister at a Christmas party. Edward intervenes, accidentally cutting Kim's hand. When Jim beats Kim, Edward stabs and kills him, then flees to the castle. The mob gives chase. Kim tells the town Edward is dead and goes up to say goodbye — he stays in the castle forever, his ice sculptures creating the snow that falls on the suburb each winter. Kim, now old, narrates the story.