An elderly woman tells her granddaughter where snow comes from which is a true story of a young man named Edward with scissors for hands, the creation of an inventor. The inventor was inspired to make an artificial man due to the anthropomorphic appearance of his other inventions. His final result was a humanlike young boy that had everything except for his hands, but the inventor had a heart attack and died while in the act of revealing a pair of real hands to Edward, leaving him to be "unfinished" forever. Many years later, local Avon saleswoman Peg Boggs, after failing to make profits in her suburban neighborhood, visits a Gothic mansion on a hill. There, she finds Edward, and decides to take Edward to her home. Edward befriends Peg's young son Kevin, her husband Bill and, after a shocking misunderstanding, their teenage daughter Kim.
Peg's neighbors become impressed at Edward's masterful skills at hedge trimming and haircutting. However, two of the townspeople, a religious fanatic named Esmeralda and Kim's jock boyfriend Jim, immediately dislike him. Joyce, a housewife in the neighborhood, suggests that Edward opens a haircutting salon with her. While examining a proposed site, she attempts to seduce him, confusing Edward, who escapes the room in a state of panic. Edward attempts to bring up the subject of her actions while the family is having dinner, but Bill talks about a different subject,completely ignoring Edward while the rest of the family are in shock.
Wanting money for a van, Jim takes advantage of Edward's ability to pick locks and breaks into his parents' house. The burglar alarm sounds and everyone except Edward escapes, despite Kim's angry insistence that they return for him. Edward is arrested, but released when a psychological examination reveals that his isolation allowed him to live without a sense of reality and common sense. The arresting officer, Allen, befriends the timid Edward, sensing his intrinsic goodness. Meanwhile, infuriated by Edward's rejection, Joyce gets revenge on Edward by claiming that he tried to rape her. This, added to the "break-in", causes many of the neighbors to question his personality. During Christmas, Edward is feared by almost everyone around him except the Boggs family, making him and the family outcasts.
While the family is setting up Christmas decorations, Edward creates an angel ice sculpture from a large block of ice. The shavings from the ice create an effect of falling snow, which Kim dances under. Jim then calls out to Kim causing her to be distracted, where Edward accidentally cuts her hand in the process as he climbs down a ladder. Jim thinks that Edward had intentionally harmed her and uses this as a advantage to attack Edward in a jealous rage. The situation gets worse when Kevin is almost run over by Jim's drunken friend. Edward pushes Kevin out of the way, accidentally cutting his face in the process, causing witnesses to think he was attacking Kevin on purpose. Edward, told by Kim to "Run" flees back to his hill-top mansion. The neighbors, gathered up into an angry mob started by Jim, follow him. Officer Allen unsuccessfully attempts to turn them back by giving them the impression that Edward is dead. He fires his gun a few times and tries to tell them that it's all over. They don't believe him and want to see for themselves if Edward is dead (Or to kill him themselves) so they continue up to the mansion.
Kim heads to the mansion before the neighbors can get there and reunites with Edward. Jim follows them and brutally attcks Edward, who does not retaliate back until Jim hurts Kim. Edward kills him instantly, stabbing him and Jim stumbles out a window, the first direct hostile act he is seen making. Kim confesses her love for Edward, and, to save him, convinces the townspeople that Edward and Jim killed each other in the fight by telling them that the roof had caved in by showing them a disembodied scissor-hand similar to his. All the neighbors return to their homes, while Joyce is seen feeling guilty and ashamed for making up the rumor about Edward. The elderly woman from the beginning reappears, as she finishes telling her granddaughter the story. It is revealed that Edward is still alive, apparently immortal because he can never age and "creating snow" from his ice sculptures, which fall upon the neighborhood below. The elderly woman reveals to her granddaughter that she is, in fact, Kim. She chooses not to visit Edward because she wants Edward to remember her the way she was in her youth. The movie ends with a young Kim dancing under the snow falling from the mansion above.
I am now using the Re-writing Ending technique to change the ending of the story-After the incident,Kim take the course of m
echanical so that one day she can change Edward's hand like normal people and she can get married with Edward and live happily ever after.
