Alec Baldwin, Anthony Hopkins, David Mamet

A billionaire and two other men are stranded, unequipped, by a plane crash in a dangerous wilderness. How many will survive to be rescued?

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Directed by: Lee Tamahori

Release Date: September 26, 1997

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DVD Release Date: May 25, 1999

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  • September 23, 2008
    The Edge is a much better film than I'd anticipated, a test of strengh of mental and physical agility. I've never been much of a fan of Alec Baldwin, but the role didn't demand anything exceptional in the way of acting capabilities. Hopkins (as usual) plays interlectual game pl...( read more)ayer very well.

    Some great scenic shots and some great camera work with the bear.

    This is a really enjoyable watch, without being too overcomplicated.
  • September 21, 2007
    highly recommended, great script, Hopkins and Baldwin are in top form here !
  • August 10, 2007
    Great cast. Two men end up in the winderness facing their own demons and a bear!
  • March 25, 2007
    Very enjoyable film, bit of a TV movie feel to it, but good acting and story of survival. Catch it if you can!
  • March 18, 2007
    You'll wonder what's going to happen next. But the best dude dies.
  • November 19, 2009
    A very philosophical dramatic action movie featuring man versus beast, than man versus man, and than lastly man's redemption. I thought that all the performances were really very enjoyable, but Alec Baldwin really stole the show. The scenes with the bear were especially intense e...( read more)specially after you see one of the men lost in the woods attacked by a Kodiak. A very easy movie to follow, but it did give you something to think about. At times a little slow, but all is forgiven when it is good.
  • November 9, 2009
    Won't keep you on "The Edge" of your seat, but ain't absolutely disappointing either.
  • October 20, 2009
    Lee Tamahori's riveting, thoughtful, suspenseful thriller is about as well-made and involving as we could ever expect from the material - and then some. Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins) is a billionaire who takes his private plane into the wilds of Alaska so that his beautiful you...( read more)ng model wife Mickey (Elle Macpherson) can be photographed by a young hot-shot fashion photographer named Robert Green (Alec Baldwin). The differences between these two men couldn't be more obvious. Robert is a wise-cracking city slicker, a professional who is looking for the best shots money can buy. Charles is the well-to-do businessman (though it's never quite revealed what his business is) who has a thirst for knowledge, who absorbs everything he learns and reads, and who happens to be reading the book "Lost in the Woods," a sort of how-to manual for survival in the wilderness, before things get underway. Charles is also less oblivious than people perhaps take him for: he can see clearly what a kindly old lodge keep (L.Q. Jones) points out - his young wife is very attractive and so is Robert, they're both young and they are likely to have an affair at some point - if they aren't already. The plot kicks in when Robert wants to go get a picture of a distinguished looking Native American man who the lodgekeeper keeps a photo of in the front of his place. Robert is willing to go "off on an adventure" to find the old man, and invites Charles along. Charles, it turns out, is something of a dab-hand at surviving in the woods (thanks, no doubt, to his latest reading material), and so he becomes invaluable when the trek involves a 20 mile plane ride and the plane crashes (after a perfectly-timed line which will come back to haunt the plot, as it turns out), stranding Charles, Robert and Robert's assistant Stephen (Harold Perrineau) out in the middle of nowhere. Charles, Robert and Stephen get along fine for a while, until a clearly telegraphed bear attack, leaving our two intrepid heroes out there, alone. Soon, Charles and Robert get to talking, and seem to have developed a certain fondness and respect for one another - but nothing is what it seems; remember that line of dialogue I mentioned before. Lee Tamahori ("Once Were Warriors," "Mulholland Falls") directed from an original screenplay by playwright turned filmmaker David Mamet ("Glengarry Glen Ross," "House of Games"). The film is beautifully-made, from Donald M. McAlpine's majestic cinematography, to Neil Travis' luxuriously-paced editing, to the evocative music by Jerry Goldsmith. Though the setting of the Alaskan wilderness is a new one for Mamet, the basic underlying material is more of the same - two men getting down to brass tacks about what makes them tick, and the con-games people can play with one another. It is great fun to watch Baldwin and Hopkins, two old pro's if ever there were, creating the relationship between these men - which develops with a refreshing subtlety. And, above all, it's great to hear Mamet's trademark dialogue spouted back and forth between two well-developed characters, stuck in a somewhat cliched and hackneyed situation, winking all the time.
  • October 20, 2009
    Almost entertainment. The mind games between the planewrecked survivalists are what keep this interesting, although Alec Baldwin does his wrong-note overacting Alec Baldwin thing so often, he ought to get a patent.
  • September 13, 2009
    Man vs. wild or man vs. man? A bit of both and just interesting enough to hold your attention.

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