MPAA-rated: R (persons under 17 must be accompanied by parent or adult guardian). With Jeff Bridges, Glenn Close, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia, John Dehner, Leigh Taylor-Young, William Allen Young. Set designer John Warnke, Christopher Burian-Mohr, Beverli Eagan. Ī Columbia Pictures release of a Martin Ransohoff Production. And Close’s bizarre need to play chambermaid in a house that has more servants than Buckingham Palace. Close is glowing but daft, and the usually splendid Coyote is reduced to good tailoring, a snarl and a glower.Ĭome to think of it, perhaps the inanities of the plot will get to you a little before the lobby. In a cast of hard-working performers, three stand out: Bridges (the nuances of whose performance are best studied in two visits) John Dehner, marvelous as a judge whose presence is the very embodiment of the decency of the legal system, and Robert Loggia, giving vivid life to that weary cliche, the gruff but sewer-mouthed investigator. When threatened bodily, when faced with incontrovertible evidence of a murder, the last person Close thinks of calling is a cop. For someone in the legal system, the woman can be a decidedly dim bulb. For her part, this grandstanding moralist seems not to blink an eye at Bridges’ behavior even though her rules are that he must be innocent or else she drops the case. We know Coyote will stop at nothing Bridges bounces back from his marital tragedy in record time, ready to put the moves on Close. What it really lacks is characters with character. A sequel to the film was planned by Ransohoff to. However, after a change in management at Columbia, Ransohoff’s ending was agreed upon. Psychological murder mysteries have come a long way from such silken exercises as “Dial M for Murder,” and wasn’t it a long way down? “Jagged Edge” is packed with false leads and courtroom shenanigans. The ending to Jagged Edge was hotly debated by filmmakers, with Columbia wanting a happy ending, and producer Martin Ransohoff fighting for a less than happy finale, according to the HR. divorcee Close is virtually ordered into Bridges’ heady sphere of influence. But her prestigious firm handles Bridges he wants a woman attorney, sex has to enter this movie somewhere and so. Their last case together violated her sense of morality so deeply that she has left criminal law completely. Attorney Glenn Close, who used to work with Coyote, knows something about his methods.
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