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Name: Jagged Edge
Released: 1985-10-4
Cast: Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Leigh Taylor-Young

Jagged Edge

R
1h 49m
1985

81%

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A grisly homicide... a sensational trial... a forbidden affair it's Jagged Edge, a razor-sharp suspense thriller about crime, punishment and passion. Jeff Bridges is the prime suspect and Glenn Close plays the attorney who falls in love with him. When a San Francisco socialite is viciously murdered, her publisher-husband, Jack Forrester (Bridges), is accused of committing the crime. Teddy Barnes (Close) decides to defend the charming, manipulative Jack, only to disregard legal ethics by having an affair with him. With the help of private eye Sam Ranssome (Robert Loggia), she takes on a ruthless D.A. (Peter Coyote) who's using the case as a political stepping stone. However, a startling revelation puts Teddy in jeopardy of becoming the next victim of the Jagged Edge.

Director:

Richard Marquand

Producer:

Martin Ransohoff, Terry Carr

Cast:

Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, Leigh Taylor-Young

Rotten Tomatoes® Score

TOMATOMETER®

81%

Critics Consensus: Coolly performed and suspenseful, Jagged Edge is a satisfying enough potboiler that most audiences won't mind if the twists don't quite add up.

Reviews

Bay Area Reporter

Steve Warren

It's mostly preposterous but juicy fun.

It is the visual ambiguity, the murkiness of the cinematography, that is often maddening.

Close - who was not nominated for this role, despite earning nods the prior three years - is a supreme heroine, endlessly watchable and perfectly sincere.

The biggest fault of Jagged Edge is that whatever suspense it manages to generate in its climactic scenes is achieved artificially, through tricky editing and manipulative ''danger'' music.

Slick and manipulative, Jagged Edge is nonetheless a vastly enjoyable psychological thriller due to the expert turns from Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, and Robert Loggia, who won a Supporting Actor Oscar nod for his role.

June 22, 2017

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