Rent Walking the Edge (1983)
3.1 of 5 from 51 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
Cult movie icons Robert Forster (Medium Cool) and Joe Spinell (Maniac) star with Nancy Kwan (Flower Drum Song) in Norbert Meisel's gritty action drama 'Walking the Edge'. Jason Walk (Forster), a down on his luck cabbie and numbers runner, has a chance at redemption when he crosses paths with revenge-seeking Christine Holloway (Kwan). She's after the gang of violent criminals, led by Brusstar (Spinell), who her murdered her husband and son. Jason unwittingly drives Christine to their lair and when she is unable to finish the job, a hellbent Brusstar and his goons hunt the pair with a vengeance. Jason Walk's cab prowls the seedier, grimier locales of early '80s Los Angeles and picks up passengers-gamblers, prostitutes and addicts-who match this environment. As such, 'Walking the Edge' is both a sleazy urban thriller and a valuable visual record of an L.A. that has long since been scrubbed clean and redeveloped. And like Max Cherry in Jackie Brown, Jason Walk is the kind of everyman-turned hero that Forster excelled at playing throughout his career. - Actors:
- Nancy Kwan, Robert Forster, Joe Spinell, A. Martinez, James McIntire, Wayne Woodson, Doug Toby, Phil H. Fravel, Luis Contreras, Terrence Beasor, Bernard Erhard, Jim Fitzpatrick, Ivy Bethune, Jacqueline Giroux, Aarika Wells, Howard Honig, Frankie Hill, Russ Courtney, Jerry Jones, Leonard D'John
- Directors:
- Norbert Meisel
- Producers:
- Sergei Goncharoff
- Writers:
- Curt Allen
- Aka:
- A Deadly Chase / The Hard Way
- Genres:
- Action & Adventure, Drama, Thrillers
- BBFC:
- Release Date:
- 06/03/2023
- Run Time:
- 94 minutes
- Languages:
- English Mono
- Subtitles:
- English
- Formats:
- Pal
- Aspect Ratio:
- Widescreen 1.85:1
- Colour:
- Colour
- BLU-RAY Regions:
- (0) All
- Bonus:
- "Scoring the Edge," a new video interview with composer Jay Chattaway
- "Det. Jurgensen Remembers Forster and Spinell," a new video interview with "French Connection Cop" Randy Jurgensen
- "Breaking Point," a new video essay by filmmaker Chris O'Neill
- Theatrical trailer
- Image gallery
- Newly recorded audio commentary by film historian Chris Poggiali and film producer Matt Verboys
- Archival audio commentary by director Norbert Meisel and stars Robert Forster and Nancy Kwan
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Reviews (1) of Walking the Edge
Bad acting spoils a routine plot - Walking the Edge review by Gwydion
The actors playing the gangsters were exactly like actors playing gangsters.
None of them were at all convincing.
The plot was pretty thin as well. They should have been expecting vengeance, after killing a woman's son.
Also a sleazy character becoming improbably heroic, but that is routine Hollywood
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