Walking the Edge

Walking the Edge is a 1985 American crime drama about Jason Walk, a Los Angeles taxi driver whose life takes a dangerous turn when he picks up Christine Holloway. Christine is a grieving wife and mother whose husband and son were murdered by a gang of criminals. As Jason drives her around the city, he gradually realizes that she is using their trips to take revenge on the men responsible for her family's deaths. Once he understands what she is doing, he is caught between turning her in and protecting her, a choice that puts him in the gang's sights as well.

The film was directed by Norbert Meisel from a screenplay by Curt Allen, and produced by Sergei Goncharoff for Empire Pictures. Robert Forster plays Jason Walk, with Nancy Kwan as Christine Holloway and Joe Spinell as the gang leader Brusstar. The supporting cast includes A Martinez, James McIntire and Wayne Woodson, among 25 credited performers. Made in the mid-1980s, it is a modestly scaled genre picture rather than a major studio production.

Audience response has been mixed but durable: on IMDb it holds a rating of 6.1 from around 1,100 votes, while on TMDB it stands at 5.4 from a much smaller group of 19 votes. The reasonably solid IMDb score suggests the film has found a small but appreciative audience over the years, even though the very low TMDB vote count makes that figure far less meaningful.