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The Edge Reviews

1997 Certificate 15
  • 70
  • from 2546 members

An aging billionaire (Hopkins) and a fashion photographer (Baldwin) having an affair with the rich man's wife must struggle against the elements--including a man-eating bear--after their plane goes down in the Alaskan wild. An unusually dense and cerebral wilderness thriller, penned by literatus David Mamet and helmed by .. Read more

Starring Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, Elle Macpherson, Harold Perrineau
Director Lee Tamahori
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller

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  • Critics' reviews

    • "...The well-matched actors grab their parts with disciplined ferocity. Baldwin does his best work in a long time....And Hopkins creates one of his most satisfying, complex characters..."

    • 9961
    • "...A barbed, great-looking adventure film written cannily by David Mamet and directed with verve and fury by Lee Tamahori..."

    • 9963
    • Getting back to nature in the Alaskan hinterland, billionaire Charles Morse (Hopkins) peruses a tattered book, Lost in... read more on Time Out

    • 44651
    • 1 stars out of 4  

      Enjoyable hokum amidst splendid scenery, concentrating on the battle for supremacy between two very different men.

    • 31408
    • "...THE EDGE's fusion of Mametspeak with a true life adventure remains brawny entertainment..."

    • 9962
    • "...[THE EDGE] exhibits a restrained literateness that's quite effective..."

    • 9960
 

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    • The Edge
      An aging billionaire (Hopkins) and a fashion photographer (Baldwin) having an affair with the rich man's wife must struggle against the elements--including a man-eating bear--after their plane goes down in the Alaskan wild. An unusually dense and cerebral wilderness thriller, penned by literatus ...

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