Jagged Edge

Jagged Edge is a 1985 film about a defense attorney who falls in love with her defendant, who may or may not have brutally murdered his wife.

Directed by Richard Marquand and written by Joe Eszterhas.

When a murder case is this shocking, which do you trust…your emotions or the evidence? (taglines)

Thomas Krasny

• The guy had a criminal record as long as my dick.

Other

Sam Ransom: [last line, of Jack Forrester] Fuck him, he was trash.

Dialogue

Teddy Barnes: Did your mother ever wash your mouth out with soap and water?

Sam Ransom: Yeah, but it didn't do any fucking good.

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Thomas Krasny: He told you, didn't he? He told you! What did he do? Did he phone you? Send you anonymous notes?

Teddy Barnes: You'll stop at nothing, won't you? Anyone could've sent those notes; everyone knew—the police in Santa Cruz knew, people in your office knew!

Thomas Krasny: Bullshit! Don't you understand what he did? He did the identical crime eighteen months before he murdered his wife! He knew it would get him off the hook! He knew Bobby Slade was seeing his wife! That's why he did the first crime in Santa Cruz! He threw us Bobby Slade as a suspect! He picked that woman very carefully! He knew she played tennis with Slade! He planned this for eighteen months! He is not a psychopath! He is an iceman. He is a monster.

Taglines

• When a murder case is this shocking, which do you trust…your emotions or the evidence?
• There are two sides of this mystery. Murder…And Passion.

Cast

• Glenn Close - Teddy Barnes
• Jeff Bridges - Jack Forrester
• Peter Coyote - Thomas Krasny
• Lance Henriksen - Frank Martin
• Robert Loggia - Sam Ransom

External links

• Jagged Edge quotes at the Internet Movie Database
• Jagged Edge at Rotten Tomatoes