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Jagged Edge
Why this pick
A sleek, adult courtroom thriller with a defence attorney drawn into a murder case where the evidence, intimacy and danger keep shifting.
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MOVIE1987 2h 1m USA
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Around Christmas, a United States Supreme Court Justice commits suicide, for which no explanation or context is given. We see the justice making a tape recording and then shooting himself. Shortly thereafter, the body of Elizabeth Quinn, a file clerk at the United States Department of Justice, is found floating in the Potomac River, and Carl Wayne Anderson (Liam Neeson), a homeless, deaf-mute Vietnam veteran, is arrested for the crime, based almost entirely on the fact that he was seen sleeping in Quinn's car the night of her murder. Kathleen Riley (Cher) is the beleaguered D.C. public defender assigned to represent Anderson.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Liam Neeson
Carl Wayne Anderson
John Mahoney
Judge Matthew Bishop Helms
Philip Bosco
Paul Gray
E. Katherine Kerr
Grace Comisky
Fred Melamed
Morty Rosenthal
Lisbeth Bartlett
Marilyn
Michael Beach
Parking Lot Attendant
Paul D'Amato
Michael