simonconnolly72-467-863881 I'll make it short - cheesy contrived movie dialogue and characters acted as well as possible by first rate actors. Watchable even though it's all far fetched and silly. However the screenwriter and director treat us like dunces with a silly ending that is not in keeping with the characters , their personalities and motivations, and just ends how it ends for dramatic value. Instead of drama, we just reject the whole premise as idiotic.....

mark.waltz Once an ambitious prosecutor in the D.A.'s office, attorney Glenn Close has gotten out because of the disgust she feels towards the type of cases she took on. A truly brutal and frightening murder opens up the film and leads to the prosecution of the victim's husband (Jeff Bridges) who pleads innocent and convinces Close to take the case. Former D.A. colleague Peter Coyote takes on the challenge of prosecuting Bridges, but Close has a ton of tricks up her sleeve.Sometimes horrifying in its description of a revolting rape and murder, this often becomes distracted by the drama surrounding Close's family life. A subplot surrounding the suicide of somebody she helped prosecute years before could have been a separate film altogether. One of the mistakes that this film makes is having Bridges and Close sleep together, an obvious violation of legal ethics. This is interesting from the perspective of showing a woman utilizing both power and ethics in a man's profession, but it becomes pretty clear what's going on half way through. Performances are excellent, particularly Robert Loggia as Close's investigator and John Dehner as the judge. Perhaps some less obvious plot ploys could have been utilized to make it all the more fathomable.

SnoopyStyle San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered along with the maid in a sadistic manner. District attorney Thomas Krasny (Peter Coyote) has the case. Her husband Jack (Jeff Bridges) is soon a suspect with a financial motive. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close) who worked under Krasny. She hasn't done a criminal case since a questionable case 4 years ago with Krasny. She falls for Jack but she can't be certain about him.The problem is that Krasny only has a circumstantial case. I kept waiting for some sort of physical evidence. I know this was pre-CSI but it still feels very flimsy. Jeff Bridges is a little too cold and I can't buy completely that single mom Glenn Close would fall for him so quickly. That's because Close exudes smarts and not the flighty innocent that is required. The acting goes overboard a bit after the second crime is revealed. I don't think she did anything out of the ordinary. The final scene doesn't really make much sense either because he would obviously be discovered later. There is a good whodunnit mystery here but it has a few too many jagged edges.

tieman64 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.