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 with a 1940s feel, written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand. The plot bears many similarities to Eszterhas' more notorious Basic Instinct (1992). The film became a box office hit.
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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 with a 1940s feel, written by Joe Eszterhas, and directed by Richard Marquand. The plot bears many similarities to Eszterhas' more notorious Basic Instinct (1992). The film became a box office hit.
The movie opens with the brutal murder of 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 (Jeff Bridges) is devastated. To make matters worse, he is then arrested for her murder by Thomas Krasny (Peter Coyote), a posturing D.A.. Jack tries to hire lawyer Teddy Barnes (Glenn 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...
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