Rotten
The biggest fault of Jagged Edge is that whatever suspense it manages to generate in its climactic scenes is achieved artificially, through tricky editing and manipulative ''danger'' music.
Jay Boyar, Orlando Sentinel
Jagged Edge
When a murder case is this shocking, which do you trust? Your emotions or your evidence?
1985 · 1h 48m · R
Thriller
Directed by
Richard Marquand
Overview
After a wealthy heiress is murdered in her beach house, her devastated husband becomes the prime suspect. He hires a lawyer who hasn’t taken a criminal case in years, and as they work together, a complicated romance develops amidst the trial.
Director and cast
- Richard Marquand Director
- Glenn Close as Teddy Barnes
- Jeff Bridges as Jack Forrester
- Peter Coyote as Thomas Krasny
- Lance Henriksen as Frank Martin
- Robert Loggia as Sam Ransom
- Michael Dorn as Dan Hislan
- Maria Mayenzet as Page Forrester
- Dave Austin as Policeman
- William Allen Young as Greg Arnold
- Ben Hammer as Dr. Goldman
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
81%
Tomatometer
Fresh
A well-crafted, hardboiled mystery.
Variety Staff, Variety
Rotten
The wholesome cast completely obliterates the unstated perversities that have been this genre's reason for being.
Dave Kehr, Chicago Reader
Rotten
The screenplay, by Joe Eszterhas, does what it can to throw up a smokescreen, but the audience will probably be well ahead of the story's final resolution.
Janet Maslin, New York Times
Fresh
Supremely effective.
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun-Times
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