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Plot summary
Charles Morse, a wealthy businessman, travels to an Alaskan lodge with his wife Mickey, a model booked for a shoot with photographer Robert Green and his assistant Stephen. Bob is short a model, so he sets out to find a local hunter, Jack Hawk, whose door note says he is hunting miles away. Charles, Bob and Stephen take a small plane toward him, and birds bring the aircraft down into a lake. The three men reach shore and spend the night. By morning they are in bear country, and Charles has noticed the attention Bob pays to Mickey.
Cast
- David Lindstedtas James
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The Edge (1997)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Baldwin was impressed by how well trained and docile Bart the Bear was, and said in interviews that during filming he worried the film simply would not work because of it. Afterwards he commented that Bart "should send the film editor a fruit basket every day for making him look so scary."
- Initially called Bookworm, the script was turned down by Harrison Ford and Dustin Hoffman before Alec Baldwin settled on the role of Green, and De Niro showed some interest in the role of Morse but ultimately declined.
- Art Linson discussed the shooting of the film in his 2002 book What Just Happened?, later made into a film, and Baldwin's unwillingness to shave a beard he had grown for the role is reenacted in it by Bruce Willis.
- Elle Macpherson had to perform one long scene in a Native American get-up of beads, feathers and suede loincloth, and remembered rehearsing in a coat before taking it off: "It feels the coldest under your arms. You don't want to ever uncover your arms again."
- Three months before the film was to be released the studio felt Bookworm needed a more commercial title, and dozens of others were considered before it was renamed The Edge.
