Jagged Edge
by Richard Marquand
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Actor: Dave Austin, Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Maria Mayenzet, Peter CoyoteDirector: Richard Marquand
Brand: SONY PICTURES HOME ENT
DVD: 2 Sides, Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled); Georgian (Subtitled); Chinese (Subtitled); Thai (Subtitled)
Format: Anamorphic, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: Anamorphic Widescreen, 1.85:1
Running Time: 108 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2000-05-02
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Studio: Sony Pictures
Movie Reviews of Jagged Edge
Movie Review: Suspenseful yet Unbelievable!
Summary: 3 Stars
This courtroom drama was very well acted by Glend Close and Jeff Bridges,and well directed by Richard Marquand. Though very well plotted by Eszterhas, the ending was completely unbelievable.
SPOILER: The suspect, who was actually the murderer, wrote letters on a typewriter that had a defective t key--the t was slightly higher than all the other letters and stood out clearly. He kept the typewriter in his house. A police search would have uncovered the typewriter, and the typewriter would have been linked to the murderer's letters. Dumb. No murderer with Bridge's intelligence would have written those letters on his own machine--he would have known that it could have been linked to him. Instead, he would have used one from the public library or from a display model in a store that sells typewriters. Then no one would have been able to trace the letters to him.
Nonetheless, up until the above blunder, the story is very suspenseful and absorbing and is worth watching. It is much better than "Eye for an Eye" which has a similar theme and makes a similar unbelievable ending mistake.
Summary of Jagged Edge
DEFENSE ATTORNEY GLENN CLOSE FALLS FOR HER CLIENT, A RICH, HANDSOME PUBLISHER WHO MANY OR MAY NOT BE WHAT THE PROSECUTION CLAIMS HE IS, A COLD-BLOODED MURDERER. SPECIAL FEATURES: TALENT FILES, SCENE SELECTIONS, SUBTITLES IN ENGLISH, SPANISH, CHINESE, PORTUGUESE, KOREAN AND THAI, INTERACTIVE MENUS AND MUCH MORE.Before screenwriter Joe Eszterhas wrote the ridiculous Showgirls, he crafted some entertaining if porous thrillers along the lines of the 1985 Jagged Edge, a taut mystery about an attorney (Glenn Close) who defends a newspaper publisher (Jeff Bridges) accused of murder. The fact that Close's character falls for him is more convenient than plausible, but it is a necessary emotional bridge for Eszterhas and the late director Richard Marquand (Eye of the Needle) to build toward a powerful finale. Scary, fun as courtroom dramas go, the film is well serviced by the two lead stars and has impressive support from costar Peter Coyote and especially from Robert Loggia, who plays Close's cop buddy. --Tom Keogh
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