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.


Books with substantial mentioning of Jagged Edge

Cynthia Lucia
Framing Female Lawyers, Women on Trial in Film
Austin, 2005

Al Clark (editor)
The Film Yearbook 1997
New York, 1987

Frank N. Magill (ed.)
Magill's Cinema Annual 1986, A Survey of the Films of 1985
Pasadena, California; Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1986