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Release Date: 1985
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Robert Loggia, Louis Giambalvo, Sanford Jensen, Lance Henriksen, Peter Coyote, Brandon Call, William Allen Young, James Karen, Ben Hammer, Glenn Close, Marshall Colt ...MORE
Cast: Jeff Bridges, Robert Loggia, Louis Giambalvo, Sanford Jensen, Lance Henriksen, Peter Coyote, Brandon Call, William Allen Young, James Karen, Ben Hammer, Glenn Close, Marshall Colt, Al Ruscio, Woody Eney, Leigh Taylor-Young, John Dehner, Maria Mayenzet ...LESS
Categories: Movies, Romance Film, Crime Fiction, Courtroom Drama, Thriller, Psychological Thriller, Crime Thriller, Mystery
Jagged Edge (1985) is a film starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, and Peter Coyote. Robert Loggia received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in this film. It is a courtroom thriller, written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand. It became a box office hit.
The movie opens with the brutal murder of San Francisco socialite Paige Forrester at her remote beach house. An intruder in a black mask ties her up in bed and kills her with a hunting knife. He writes the word 'Bitch' on the wall above the bed with her blood. Her husband Jack Forrester... MORE
Jagged Edge (1985) is a film starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, and Peter Coyote. Robert Loggia received an Academy Award nomination as Best Supporting Actor for his role in this film. It is a courtroom thriller, written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand. It became a box office hit.
The movie opens with the brutal murder of San Francisco socialite Paige Forrester at her remote beach house. An intruder in a black mask ties her up in bed and kills her with a hunting knife. He writes the word 'Bitch' on the wall above the bed with her blood. Her husband Jack Forrester (Bridges) is devastated. To make matters worse, he is then arrested for her murder by Thomas Krasny (Coyote), a posturing D.A.. Jack tries to hire high-profile lawyer Teddy Barnes (Close) to defend him. Barnes used to work for Krasny, and she is reluctant to take the case, as she stopped working in criminal law after an incident with Krasny.
Krasny runs into Barnes in a restaurant, where she is dining with her ex-husband. He tells her that "Henry Styles hanged himself in his cell," which clearly distresses her. Barnes visits Sam Ransom (Loggia), a two-bit private detective who used to work for Krasny's LESS
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