Jeremiah S. Chechik directs Johnny Depp, Mary Stuart Masterson and Aidan Quinn in this romantic comedy where a mentally ill young woman finds her love in an eccentric man who models himself after Buster Keaton.

Homesy and messy. Undoubtedly an afterbirth of Edward Scissorhands’ unrepeatable success, this has to be one of the potentially riskiest bad taste gambles of modern mainstream Hollywood. Everyone involved just about makes it work. The end result is cute rather than near sighted exploitation. Though it does tread a fine line. Melodrama this saccharine ain’t my spoon of sugar.

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Perfect Double Bill: Edward Scissorhands (1990)

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