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Edward Scissorhands (1990) Original Trailer [FHD]

Edward Scissorhands(1990)
Released
1990 · FILM

Edward Scissorhands

When a mysterious, gentle creature with scissors for hands is discovered living in an old mansion, a young woman helps him experience the world and love, but his dangerous secret threatens to tear their perfect suburban town apart.

“Innocence is what he knows. Beauty is what she sees.”

Directed by
Tim Burton
Written by
Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson
Rated
MPA · PG-13
Runtime
105 min
DramaFantasyRomance

Synopsis

A small suburban town is visited by Edward, a castaway from an unfinished science experiment.

Credits

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 78+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Colleen HalseyShot by Stefan CzapskyScored by Danny ElfmanDesigned by Bo Welch

Box Office

1990 · Box office

💰 Box-office hit — grossed 4.3× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$86.0M

Budget$20.0M
Worldwide gross$86.0M
break-even (2.5×)

US & Canada: $56.4M — 66% of worldwide · International: $29.7M (34%)

Opening weekend: $160K — 0% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $254K — 0% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 2 theaters

Full synopsis

Also known as

  • Edward mit den Scherenhändende
  • Edward aux mains d'argentfr
  • Edward mani di forbiceit

Companies

Production20th Century Fox, Tim Burton Productions

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