A film review (sample)

EDWARD SCISSORHANDS (1990)

Title: EDWARD SCISSORHANDS, year: 1990, length:105 MIN
it has every genre: drama, comedy, romance, horror, fantasy, action, everything.

Director: TIM BURTON, screenwriter: Tim Burton and Caroline Thompson

Main actors: JHONNY DEPP, WYNONA RIDER, VINCENT PRICE.

Filming locations: cities in FLORIDA AND CALIFORNIA, USA

Plot: the action takes place in the 70's, in a suburban American town near a hill with a gloomy mansion at the top. The neighbourhood is based on Tim Burton's hometown of Burbank and his memories when he was a teenager.

It begins when a 96-year-old woman describes to her great-granddaughter where snow comes from by telling her the story of a young man named Edward, who has scissors for hands. He was the creation of an inventor. The inventor's final result was a young boy who had everything except for hands, but the inventor had a heart attack and died before giving Edward a pair of real hands, leaving him "unfinished" forever.

Many years after Edward was created, local Avon saleswoman Peg Boggs visits the Gothic mansion on the hill where Edward lives. There, she finds Edward alone and decides to take him to her home. Peg brings him down from the mountain and introduces him to her normal, suburban life- and that's when it all begins. Edward becomes friends with Peg's young son Kevin and her husband Bill. He later falls in love with the Boggs' teenage daughter, Kim.


Main character:
Edward is just a young man misunderstood for his appearance. He is slightly dark on the outside, but sweet as a kitten on the inside. Johnny Depp plays a lost, frightened Edward so well that it seems real.

Opinion (told message): It's a bittersweet and lovely fable about trying to be accepted, a romance about trying to fit in and being yourself. It's a dark, romantic and moving lesson about accepting differences.
All in all, the movie has equal amounts of witty, romantic, and depressing moments, making it a really wonderful film that you'll want to watch over and over again.

I've loved it since I first watched it. It's beautiful. A must see for EVERYONE!

Edward Scissorhands is a magical modern fairy tale.

I absolutely love this masterpiece 
by dark director Tim Burton.