爱德华（约翰尼•戴普饰）是一个机器人，他拥有人的心智，却有一双剪刀手，孤独地生活在古堡里，闯入古堡的化妆品推销员佩格把他带回家，让他走进了人类的世界单纯的爱德华爱上了佩格的女儿金（薇诺娜•瑞德饰），金也慢慢的被爱德华的善良所吸但是，一连串的意外事情让周围的人邻居对爱德华的态度从喜欢变成无法接受，爱德华痛苦地发现，他总是好心办坏事，连自己的爱人都不能拥抱，或许，他注定就不属于这个世界。

Edward (Johnny Depp) is a robot created by an inventor living in an old castle. The inventor taught him many things about human beings, but the inventor passed away before Edward could complete his work. Although Edward possessed human wisdom, his appearance still had a pair of scissor hands. Later, a cosmetics salesman, Pegg (Diana West), found Edward and took him back to his home. The appearance of Edward brought happiness to Peg's empty and boring girlfriends. And Edward used his own scissors to help people trim branches and hair, which was very popular with everyone. At this time, Edward encountered a painful thing for himself. He fell in love with Peg's daughter Jin (Winona Ryder), but Jin already had a boyfriend and did not like Edward. King let Edward sneak into her boyfriend's father's mansion, was arrested by the police, and was finally released on parole because of his insanity. But people in the small town began to stay away from him and the Jin family. In the process, Jin saw the true face of her boyfriend and developed a good impression of Edward. In the end, Edward killed Jin's vicious boyfriend in a fight in the castle, and Jin accepted Edward's love, but Edward finally chose to stay away from the crowd