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Jagged Edge is a american film of genre Drama directed by Richard Marquand released in USA on 4 october 1985 with Glenn Close
Jagged Edge (1985)
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Add to a movie listJagged Edge is a 1985 film starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, and Peter Coyote. It is a courtroom thriller, written by Joe Eszterhas and directed by Richard Marquand. Robert Loggia was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role.
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An intruder in a black mask and clothing ties up San Francisco socialite Page Forrester at her remote beach house and kills her with a hunting knife with a jagged edge. He writes the word "Bitch" on the wall with her blood. Her husband Jack (Bridges) later recovers in a clinic with a bloody head wound, claiming to have been knocked unconscious and awoken to find Page's body. After her funeral, he is arrested for her murder by DA Thomas Krasny, based on evidence that includes a witness at a club who saw a hunting knife in Jack's locker; medical suggestion that Jack's head wound was self-inflicted; Jack's fingerprints being at the crime scene with Page's; and Jack inheriting all of Page's corporate and personal assets in the event of her death. Forrester tries to hire high-profile lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him after hearing of her high success rate. Barnes, however, used to work for Krasny, and is reluctant to take the case as she stopped working in criminal law after an incident with him.Actors
Glenn Close
(Teddy Barnes)
Jeff Bridges
(Jack Forrester)
Robert Loggia
(Sam Ransom)
Peter Coyote
(Thomas Krasny)
John Dehner
(Judge Carrigan)
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