Peg Boggs is a supporting character in the 1990 film Edward Scissorhands. She is the wife of Bill Boggs and the mother of Kim and Kevin.
She is portrayed by Dianne Wiest.
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Peg is an Avon lady who visits the decrepit Gothic mansion where Edward lives. She finds Edward alone and offers to take him to her home after discovering that he's virtually harmless. After taking him in, she gave him some of her husband's old clothes and helps him out too.
Peg introduces Edward to her family: her husband Bill, their young son Kevin and their teenage daughter Kim. The family come to see Edward as a kind person, though Kim is initially fearful of him at first.
The Boggs' neighbors are curious about their new house guest, and the Boggs throw a neighborhood barbecue welcoming Edward. Most of the neighbors are fascinated by Edward and befriend him, except for the eccentric religious fanatic Esmeralda and Kim's boyfriend Jim.
Edward repays the neighborhood for their kindness by trimming their hedges into topiaries. This leads him to discover he can groom dogs' hair and later he styles the hair of the neighborhood women.
One of the neighbors, Joyce, offers to help Edward open a hair salon. However, while scouting a location, Joyce attempts to seduce him, but scares him away.
Joyce lies to the neighborhood women that he attempted to seduce her, reducing their trust in him. The bank refuses to give Edward a loan as he does not have a background or financial history.
Jealous of Kim's attraction to Edward, Jim suggests Edward pick the lock on his parents' home to obtain a van for Jim and Kim. Edward agrees, but when he picks the lock, a burglar alarm is triggered. Jim flees and Edward is arrested.
The police determine that his period of isolation has left Edward without any sense of reality or common sense. Edward takes responsibility for the robbery, telling a surprised Kim that he did it because she asked him to. Edward is shunned by those in the neighborhood except for the Boggs family.
During Christmas, Edward carves an angelic ice sculpture modeled after Kim; the ice shavings are thrown into the air and fall like snow, a rarity for the neighborhood.
Kim dances in the snowfall until Jim arrives and calls out to Edward, surprising him and causing him to accidentally cut Kim's hand.
Jim accuses Edward of intentionally harming Kim, but Kim, fed up with Jim's jealousy, breaks up with him. Edward flees in a rage, destroying his works and scaring Esmeralda until he’s calmed by a stray dog.
Edward kindly cuts a piece of fur obscuring the dog's vision. Kim's parents set out to find Edward while Kim reluctantly stays behind in case he returns.
Edward does return to the Boggs home to find Kim there who asks him to hold her, but Edward fears that he will hurt her. Jim drives around in a drunken rage and nearly runs over Kevin, but Edward pushes Kevin to safety, inadvertently cutting him.
This causes those witnessing the event to think that Edward is attacking Kevin and Jim tries attacking Edward. Edward defends himself, cutting Jim's arm before he flees to the mansion. Peg wasn't seen again after Kim told everybody to leave Edward alone since Kevin was okay and it was just a scratch.
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- Throughout the film, Peg's hair changes due to Edward giving her new haircuts.