Edward Scissorhands achieves the nearly impossible feat of capturing the delicate flavour of a fable or fairy tale in a live-action movie. The story follows a young man named Edward (Johnny Depp), who was created by an inventor (Vincent Price, in one of his last roles) who died before he could give the poor creature a pair of human hands. Edward lives alone in a ruined Gothic castle that ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Johnny Depp, Winona Ryder, Dianne Wiest, Anthony Michael Hall, Kathy BakerDirected By: Tim Burton
Before making Batman, director Tim Burton and star Michael Keaton teamed up for this popular black comedy about a young couple (Geena Davis and Alec Baldwin) whose premature death leads them to a series of wildly bizarre afterlife exploits. As ghosts in their own New England home, they're faced with the challenge of scaring off the pretentious new owners (Catherine O'Hara and Jeffrey ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Alec Baldwin, Geena Davis, Michael Keaton, Annie McEnroe, Maurice PageDirected By: Tim Burton
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Anthony HopkinsDirected By: Francis Ford Coppola
The Salem witch hunts are given a new and nasty perspective when a vengeful teenage girl uses superstition and repression to her advantage, creating a killing machine that becomes a force unto itself. Pulsating with seductive energy, this provocative drama is as visually arresting as it is intellectually engrossing. Arthur Miller based his classic 1953 play on the actual Salem witch trials of ...
Manufacturer: 20th Century Fox Home EntertainmentStarring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Winona Ryder, Paul Scofield, Joan Allen, Bruce DavisonDirected By: Nicholas Hytner
How well you respond to Richard Linklater's A Scanner Darkly depends on how much you know about the life and work of celebrated science fiction writer Philip K. Dick. While it qualifies as a faithful adaptation of Dick's semiautobiographical 1977 novel about the perils of drug abuse, Big Brother-like surveillance and rampant paranoia in a very near future ("seven years from now"), this is ...
Manufacturer: Warner Home VideoStarring: Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, Robert Downey Jr., Rory Cochrane, Mitch BakerDirected By: Richard Linklater
The flaws are easily forgiven in this beautiful version of Louisa May Alcott's novel. A stirring look at life in New England during the Civil War, Little Women is a triumph for all involved. We follow one family as they split into the world, ending up with the most independent, the outspoken Jo (Winona Ryder). This time around, the dramatics and conclusions fall into place a little too ...
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Susan Sarandon, Winona Ryder, Kirsten Dunst, Claire Danes, Gabriel ByrneDirected By: Gillian Armstrong
Manufacturer: UcaStarring: Adam Sandler, Winona Ryder, John Turturro, Allen Covert, Peter GallagherDirected By: Steven Brill
Manufacturer: Sony Pictures Home EntertainmentStarring: Gary Oldman, Cary Elwes, Richard E. Grant, Winona Ryder, Anthony HopkinsDirected By: Francis Ford Coppola
Richard Benjamin's off-beat 1990 comedy Mermaids found Cher at the peak of her big-screen form. She plays Mrs Flax to the manner born. The eccentric mother feeds her two daughters on hors d'oeuvres and sticks a pin in the map to decide the family's next destination when her love affairs have run their course. When they reach New England, however, events--and an unlikely but amiable suitor ...
Manufacturer: MGM EntertainmentStarring: Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder, Michael Schoeffling, Christina RicciDirected By: Richard Benjamin
