Jagged Edge
Short description
When a wealthy San Francisco newspaper heiress is found murdered at her beach house, suspicion falls on her husband, Jack Forrester, who stands to inherit the family publishing fortune. He turns to Teddy Barnes, a lawyer who has stayed away from criminal defense for years, to represent him against a district attorney with his own reasons for pursuing the case. As the two prepare the defense, Teddy finds herself drawn to her charming client, even as details around the killing refuse to fit together neatly.
Richard Marquand directed the thriller, his fourth feature after The Legacy, Eye of the Needle and Return of the Jedi, from a screenplay by Joe Eszterhas, with Martin Ransohoff producing. Glenn Close plays Teddy opposite Jeff Bridges as Jack, with Peter Coyote, Lance Henriksen, Robert Loggia and Michael Dorn among the credited cast of thirty-three.
Made for about 15 million dollars, the Columbia Pictures release took in roughly 40 million worldwide. On IMDb its critics' rating stands at 6.7 out of 10 from 31 reviews, while on TMDB viewers give it 6.2 out of 10 from around 300 votes, a modest gap between professional and audience assessments of the film.
What's left behind the scenes
- Jane Fonda was initially invited for the role of the main character. At one point, she demanded some changes to the script written by Joe Eszterhas, he objected, and the studio preferred to side with him in the dispute, replacing Fonda with Glenn Close.
- There's an urban legend about the existence of an alternative ending with a different killer. No such alternative ending actually exists, but the original finale was reshot due to complaints from viewers who claimed the killer's face was shown unclearly. Initially, the killer's face without a mask was shown in 18 frames, i.e., less than a second of screen time. Later, another 9 seconds were added to the revised version, and the killer's face was shown clearly.
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