Jagged Edge (1985)

Storyline

San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she hasn’t handled a criminal case for many years. There’s a certain chemistry between them and Teddy soon finds herself defending the man she loves. Jagged Edge, the 1985 Richard Marquand courtroom legal lawyer crime murder thriller (“When a murder case is this shocking, which do you trust? Your emotions or your evidence?”; “Written by Joe Eszterhas”) starring Glenn Close, Jeff Bridges, Peter Coyote, Robert Loggia (in his nominated for Best Supporting Actor Academy Award role), and Maria Mayenzet