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The Edge [DVD] [Sensormatic]

1 disc
Region 1 USA/CA (info)

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 Tamahori (ONCE WERE WARRIORS).
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- Rating - for language and some adventure gore/violence
Additional Info

Manufacturer Part Number (MPN): 2005030
Credits

Anthony Hopkins, Anthony Hopkines, Anthony Hopkins, Alec Baldwin, Alexander Rae Baldwin, Elle Macpherson, Harold Perrineau, Harold Perrineau, Harrold Perrineau, Harrold Perrineau, L.Q. Jones, L. Q. Jones, Kathleen Wilhoite
Critic Reviews

"...[THE EDGE] exhibits a restrained literateness that's quite effective..."
Box Office
"...THE EDGE boasts some awesome effects..."
Sight and Sound
"...Great bear. Great Hopkins...
USA Today
"...A barbed, great-looking adventure film written cannily by David Mamet and directed with verve and fury by Lee Tamahori..."
New York Times
"...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..."
Entertainment Weekly
"...THE EDGE's fusion of Mametspeak with a true life adventure remains brawny entertainment..."
Los Angeles Times
"...It's subtly funny in the way it toys with the cliches of the genre....The movie contains glorious scenery..."
Chicago Sun-Times
"Hopkins does fine work as a billionaire stranded in the middle of the Alaskan wilderness with a smarmy photographer, played by Alec Baldwin....THE EDGE is an interesting footnote in the Mamet canon..." -- Grade: B
A.V. Club
4 stars out of 4 -- "Brilliantly written by David Mamet, and beautifully directed by Lee Tamahori, it's thought-provoking, quotable, and worthy of endless analysis."
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