Rating: R
Genre:
Thriller
Release Date: 05/02/2000
SubTitles: English/Espanol/Por/KO/TH
Dubbed: English
Sound: DDS
Run Time: 108 Minutes
Flags: Violence, Brief Nudity, Nudity, Adult Situations, Not For Children, Adult Language
Distributor/Studio: Columbia TriStar
In this hit
thriller, a prosecuting attorney-turned-defense lawyer falls in love with a rich, charming client who's been accused of murdering his wife and her maid with a hunting knife. When an unknown assailant gruesomely slays San Francisco newspaper heiress
Paige Forrester (
Maria Mayenzet), her husband and business partner,
Jack Forrester (
Jeff Bridges), turns to corporate attorney
Teddy Barnes (
Glenn Close) for counsel.
Teddy, who quit her job with the district attorney's office four years earlier over an ethical dilemma, has reservations about returning to criminal work; nevertheless, she accepts the assignment, convinced of
Jack's innocence and eager to face off in court against her old boss,
DA Thomas Krasny (
Peter Coyote), who's about run for attorney general. With the help of investigator
Sam Ransom (
Robert Loggia), the recently divorced
Teddy builds a strong defense for her client, though the work -- and her incipient romance with
Jack -- cause strain in her relationship with her children. When
Jack's innocence and his romantic intentions come into question,
Teddy feels her life slipping back into a moral quagmire until a series of courtroom denouements set the stage for even bigger surprises. Big-name screenwriter
Joe Eszterhas' follow-up to
Flashdance,
Jagged Edge was directed by
Richard Marquand, who had previously lensed
Return of the Jedi. Parts of
Jagged Edge were shot on-location in San Francisco, whose City Hall provides the film's courtroom exteriors.
~ Brian J. Dillard, All Movie Guide
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from Fort Lauderdale, Florida
A Roller-Coaster Crime Drama.
Glenn Close and Jeff Bridges star in this suspenseful psychological courtroom drama about crime, punishment, and passion. Glenn is a beautiful attorney assigned to defend a San Francisco newspaper publisher (Bridges), who is the prime suspect in the murder of his socialite wife, but soon, she disregards legal ethics by having an affair with him, but the question is: Is he really guilty, and will she become his next victim? Also starring Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, John Dehner, Leigh Taylor-Young, Michael Dorn, Louis Giambalvo, Brandon Call, Christina Hutter, Bruce French, Lance Henriksen, Karen Austin, Marshall Colt, James Karen, Ben Hammer, Guy Boyd, William Allen Young, Phyllis Applegate, Walter Brooke, Diane Erickson, Al Ruscio, and Maria Mayenzet.
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