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Plot summary
Teddy Barnes left criminal law after an incident with Thomas Krasny, her former boss at the district attorney's office. Jack Forrester's wife Page, a San Francisco heiress, is murdered in her beach house. Jack is arrested for the killing and asks Barnes to defend him. She hesitates at first, and visits Sam Ransom, a private investigator who once worked for Krasny. Barnes then decides to take the case.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Jagged Edge (1985)
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- According to Eszterhas, producer Ransohoff was unimpressed with the casting of Glenn Close and tried to make her re-shoot a sex scene, so that he could watch her.
- Jagged Edge II was developed at Columbia by producer Martin Ransohoff with Glenn Close and Robert Loggia reprising their roles, but production head Guy McElwaine was replaced by David Puttnam, who Ransohoff said did not want sequels. Puttnam denied it, saying the script "wasn't good".
- According to Joe Eszterhas, the film originated with producer Martin Ransohoff, who wanted to make a courtroom drama in the vein of Anatomy of a Murder. It was originally written as a vehicle for Jane Fonda, who turned down the project.
- Michael Dorn, two years before starting his 30-plus years portraying the character Worf in the Star Trek franchise, has his first credited film role here, as polygraph analyst Dan Hislan.
- With the sequel dead, Ransohoff decided to turn his script into an original story, which became the film Physical Evidence. "It's a good mystery on its own terms," he said.
- Sony Pictures announced in April 2018 that a remake of Jagged Edge was in development with Halle Berry starring, but no further announcements were made after July, and as of 2026 no such film has been released.
