Jagged Edge (1985)

People are voting emotionally.

Let's be realistic.

I think this is a new genre that they're all sort of working their way through it and haven't got all the kinks worked out yet but it's a genre that works for me.

The movie's not perfect, but it sticks the landing of its message. It was engaging - thrilling at times - and I personally thought it was a great time.

'Jagged Edge" is a 80s thriller that evolves around the murder of a publisher, and her husband is held on trial for the murder. A female attorney takes the case to save the hero from the gallows. The film through its sheer treatment becomes engaging and would hold you to your seats, especially the courtroom scenes. The film was a big hit of its time and shares the same trait of the successful thrillers of 80s like "Fatal Attraction".Anyway, it has been claimed the film was remade in Hindi as "Kasoor" which I watched long before; and I was amazed that the whole plot, characterization, and twists are the same. Only at the end, 'Jagged Edge" falls short. And one cool advice: Don't watch this film if you have watched "Kasoor."Rating: 2 stars out of 4

A prosecuting attorney-turned-defense lawyer falls in love with a rich, charming client who's been accused of murdering his wife and her maid with a hunting knife in this film,Jagged Edge.The story is about a taut mystery about an attorney who defends a newspaper publisher accused of murder.It stars Jeff Bridges and Glenn Close together with Peter Coyote and Robert Loggia. It is a courtroom thriller, written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand.When an unknown assailant gruesomely slays San Francisco newspaper heiress Paige Forrester, her husband and business partner, Jack Forrester, turns to corporate attorney Teddy Barnes for counsel. Teddy, who quit her job with the district attorney's office four years earlier over an ethical dilemma, has reservations about returning to criminal work; nevertheless, she accepts the assignment, convinced of Jack's innocence and eager to face off in court against her old boss, DA Thomas Krasny (Peter Coyote), who's about run for attorney general. With the help of investigator Sam Ransom, the recently divorced Teddy builds a strong defense for her client, though the work and her incipient romance with Jack cause strain in her relationship with her children. When Jack's innocence and his romantic intentions come into question, Teddy feels her life slipping back into a moral quagmire until a series of courtroom denouements set the stage for even bigger surprises.Slick and manipulative, the movie is nonetheless a vastly enjoyable psychological thriller due to the expert turns from the talented cast.Although the screenplay does what it can to throw up a smokescreen, but the viewer will probably be well ahead of the story's final resolution.It is best when it's seen with a minimum of analysis as it becomes supremely effective.

Once a box office hit, now a laughable thriller, Richard Marquand's "Jagged Edge" stars Jeff Bridges as a husband accused of murdering his wife. Bridges maintains his innocence, falls in love with the lawyer representing him (Glenn Close) and then spends the film's last act teasing his audience: did he indeed do it? Did he get away with the crime? IS HE A MURDEROUS PSYCHOPATH? IS HIS NEW LOVER IN MORTAL DANGER?The film was written by Joe Eszterhas, a writer who specialises in trash. Marquand maintains a good pace during the film's first act, but things get increasingly slow/predictable as we progress. A better director would have laid on more thrills or, even better, embraced his lurid plot and so poured on more cheese.5/10 – Worth no viewings. See the marginally better "Primal Fear, "Presumed Innocent" or Hitchcock's countless "wrong man" movies.

Jack Forrester (Jeff Bridges) is accused of the brutal murder of his wife. He hires Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close) to defend him. Barnes used to work for the district attorney, but quit after having regretfully participated in a prosecution where the DA withheld evidence.In the first scene we are treated to a front row seat to witness the murder. All right, I realize that it's important for the initial scenes to capture your attention, but I don't need to be hit over the head with a two-by-four. The music is so over the top, and the murder so disgusting, that I quickly realized that subtlety was not to be a hallmark of this movie.The story ultimately devolves into a sub-par courtroom drama. The usual quota of surprises are supplied, like Jack's not revealing a crucial event that, being as smart as he was portrayed to be, he had to know would come up. Events are tossed in to purposely mislead and they are so obvious that you know that they are there to mislead.Bridges and Close go through their paces in performances that are lackluster. At least Close is called on to look indignant or frightened on occasion, but Bridges is hardly called on to do anything but deliver his lines. Peter Coyote, as the DA, does seem to be trying and Robert Loggia, as a private investigator, adds some spark. I have nothing against profanity in movies, but Loggia's using the F-word at every opportunity seemed completely gratuitous.This would hardly qualify as a decent episode of "Law and Order."