EDWARD SCISSORHANDS

Part of the special series JOLLY SEASON

Kim: “Hold me.”
Edward: “I can’t.”

Edward lives alone in a castle, created by an inventor who died before he could give him hands. Instead, Edward has scissors—and is taken into suburbia by an Avon saleswoman. There, he becomes a sensation: gardener, hairdresser, and outsider all at once. When Edward falls in love with Kim, the daughter of his foster family, a tender and tragic Christmas story unfolds.

Johnny Depp plays Edward with quiet vulnerability, while Winona Ryder’s Kim brings warmth to the cool suburban world. Burton’s visual signature—gothic, playful, and melancholic—turns the film into a modern fairy tale about otherness and longing.