The Winona Ryder Collection, (Edward Scissorhands / Mermaid...

SCISSORHANDS

High above the town in a lonely, gothic mansion, lived a man called Edward Scissorhands. His hands were cold but his heart was warm. You see Edward Scissorhands wasn't a real man he was a creation. And his life forever changed the town where he lived.

The creator who invented Edward, gave him everything. A heart. A brain. Even a covering of skin. But the inventor died before finishing poor Edward, leaving him with shears of metal where his fingers should have been. Edward lived alone where he could hurt no one and no one could hurt him.

Until the day the Avon Lady came calling...

MERMAID

Mrs Flax (Cher) is a free-spirited, independent woman with two children, Charlotte (Winona Ryder) and Kate (Christina Ricci). The things is, Mrs Flax doesn't like sticking around a place when one of her relationships fail, and so the family have been moving around the country all of their lives. When they arrive in East Port Mrs Flax finds herself falling for the local shoe shop owner (Bob Hoskins). Only this time it is not only Mrs Flax who has fallen in love, but also her daughter Charlotte.

This is one of the most understated coming-of-age feel-good films, which was made all the better because of its excellent cast. Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci both won international film awards for their performances.

CRUCIBLE

A small group of teen girls in 1692 Salem, Massachusetts caught in an innocent conjuring of love potions to catch young men are forced to tell lies that Satan had invaded them and forced them to participate in the rites and are then forced to name those involved. Thrown into the mix are greedy preachers and other major landowners trying to steal others' land and one young woman infatuated with a married man and determined to get rid of his innocent wife. Arthur Miller wrote the events and the subsequent trials where those who demanded their innocence were executed, those who would not name names were incarcerated and tortured, and those who admitted their guilt were immediately freed as a parable of the Congressional Communist witch hunts led by Senator Joe McCarthy in 1950's America.