Edge

UPC: 024543050308

Studio: Fox Home Entertainment

MPAA Rating: R   Contains:[Violence, Adult Situations]

Summary: Billionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) accompanies his much-younger wife Mickey (Elle Macpherson) and a fashion photography team headed by Bob Green (Alec Baldwin) to a remote lodge in Alaska. Charles is a quiet, introspective man, fond of accumulating trivia and other facts in his encyclopedic mind; he is also troubled with the idea that Bob and Mickey may be lovers. Even though he suspects the younger man plans to kill him, Charles goes with Bob and his assistant Stephen (Harold Perrineau) on an airplane trip to find a photogenic friend (Gordon Tootoosis) of the lodge owner (L.Q. Jones), but the plane crashes in a lake, killing the pilot. The crash is miles from their planned path, so they can't expect to be spotted by an aerial search; there's only one chance: they have to walk to a more likely spot.Though Robert and Stephan are more physically fit, Charles' calm wit and ingenuity proves the key to their survival, especially after a ferocious bear brutally kills Stephen. Robert and Charles' odyssey becomes more urgent when they discover that the bear is now stalking them. ~ Bill Warren, Rovi

Category: Thriller

Edge

Format: DVD

Release Date: 06/04/2002

Runtime: 117 Minutes

Lisa Kropiewnicki

This underrated adventure-thriller is intriguing, entertaining, and features gorgeous panoramic views of its wilderness locations. Combining a tight script by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and Oscar-nominated screenwriter David Mamet with the skillful direction of Lee Tamahori, the pacing is on target, the conflicts are provocatively foreshadowed, and the lead characters are realistically flawed, fully fleshed-out human beings. Anthony Hopkins brilliantly portrays an intellectual billionaire juxtaposed to Alec Baldwin's vulnerable performance as a shallow fashion photographer. Mamet's exploration of the moral psychology and mind games between the leads, as well as the sheer physiology of man versus nature, grows delightfully complicated when the men develop a love/hate relationship dependent upon their short-term needs for survival, their fight against a man-eating bear (ferociously played by Bart the Bear), and their desire for the same woman. The story line has its flaws - notably the confusing back story of Baldwin's affair with Hopkins' wife (a supermodel adequately played by Elle Macpherson), and the lack of a satisfying denouement. As photographed by veteran cinematographer Donald McAlpine, The Edge makes full use of the Alaskan setting (actually filmed in Canada) for its majestic and mountainous grandeur, but it's the action scenes and believable intensity between Hopkins and the bear that will put viewers on the edges of their seats. ~ Lisa Kropiewnicki, Rovi

Cast and Crew: Bart the Bear  Actor 
Jerry Goldsmith  Composer (Music Score) 
Art Linson  Producer 
David Mamet  Screenwriter 
Lloyd Phillips  Executive Producer 
Lee Tamahori  Director 
Anthony Hopkins  Actor 
Alec Baldwin  Actor 
Elle MacPherson  Actor 
Harold Perrineau, Jr.  Actor 
L.Q. Jones  Actor 
Kathleen Wilhoite  Actor 
David Lindstedt  Actor 
Mark Kiely  Actor 
Eli Gabay  Actor 
Larry Musser  Actor 
Brian Arnold  Actor 
Kelsa Kinsly  Actor 
Bob Boyd  Actor 
Gordon Tootoosis  Actor 
Brian Steele  Actor 

Country: USA