Product Details

• Actors: Ron Geren, Amy Hill, Gia Buonaguro, Wendie Malick, Eric Slovin
• Format: Anamorphic, Color, Dolby, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
• Language: English (Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround)
• Subtitles: English, Spanish
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.85:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: R (Restricted)
• Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
• DVD Release Date: March 23, 2004
• Run Time: 93 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (14 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B00018YC1O
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #142,957 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "On Edge" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

Editorial Reviews

Three cold-hearted rivals train toil and plot their way to figure skating fame in his hilarious mockumentary about skating for glory and knocking the competition out cold! Starring Jason Alexander Scott Hamilton A.J. Langer Wendie Malick and Kathy Griffin and featuring hilarious cameos from Olympic luminaries Kristi Yamaguchi Peter Carruthers and Tai Babilonia On Edge is a raucous riotous razor-sharp romp!When it comes to skating Zamboni Phil (Alexander) has seen it all until he sees Veda a frosty femme fatale with a heart of ice; Wendy a plus-size performer with an appetite for gold; and J.C. a determined delinquent with a plan to ice the competition. Skating and scheming to glittering glory the trio must finally face off in a sequined fight to the finish where the only thing sharper than their skates is their cutthroat ambition!System Requirements: Running Time 93 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: MYSTERY/SUSPENSE Rating: R UPC: 027616901675 Manufacturer No: 1005937

Customer Reviews

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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Really, Really Funny, Even if You Don't Like Skating, February 18, 2004

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lisasiouxfalls "lisasiouxfalls" (Sioux Falls, SD USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On Edge (Slip) [VHS] (VHS Tape)

You don't have to be a fan of figure skating to love ON EDGE, but if you are, it'll kill you. Where else can you get Jason Alexander ("George" from SEINFELD) alongside Kristi Yamaguchi and Scott Hamilton? But they aren't even the best parts of this feel-good satire (a major accomplishment in itself) akin to BEST OF SHOW, because relative newcomers Langer and Winokur steal their scenes. You'll want them to star in the next big thing after they make you believe so intensely in their characters. I saw this at a film festival and haven't been able to get it out of my head, since. Did you like TALK RADIO or LARRY SANDERS? Then you'll love this behind-the-scenes look at skating. It's what those "Up Close and Personal" profiles during the Olympics DON'T show you, but you wish they did.

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Too true, too funny, March 28, 2004

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Sonora (St. Louis, MO United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: On Edge (DVD)

You don't have to be a figs fan to enjoy this hilarious mockumentary about the world of figure skating. I saw this in its brief appearance in the theatres a couple of years ago, and was completely stoked to see it released on DVD.

We watched it with a crowd of figure skating people immediately after Ladies Finals from Worlds in Germany-what a great juxtaposition! The loony in the tutu skating out on the ice during Michelle's warm up, followed by this lulu of a movie. Wendie Malick is perfect as the over involved skating mother-do I know a few like her! And the girl who plays bad girl skater JC Cain needs to be a star-she was wonderful! "It's hard to be Courtney Love when they want Celine Dion."

There really needs to be a sequel with pairs and dance covered, as well as the whacky world of international competition.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars MISSES THE MARK..., July 18, 2004

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Lawyeraau (Balmoral Castle) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: On Edge (DVD)

This film presents an interesting idea gone bad: a mockumentary of the figure skating world. What could be better? After all, this is a sport beset by the individual caprices of its judges, win-at- all-cost personalities, and a certain effete snobbishness. Unfortunately, the screenplay writers, Karl Slovin and Laura Wolf, churn out a leaden script, and the director, Karl Slovin, compounds his badly written script with ham-handed direction. Even accomplished funny man, Jason Alexander, falls flat in this film.

The film focuses on a number of characters who are competing in a local figure skating competition with an eye towards the Regional competition, with Zamboni Phil (Jason Alexander) functioning as a sort of Greek chorus or commentator. The three primary characters are Veda (Barret Swatek), J.C. Cain (A.J. Langer), and Wendy Wodinski (Marissa Jaret Winokur). The film focuses on their struggle to compete and what happens to them during competition.

The fully focused Veda, with her stage mother, Mildred (Wendie Malick), in tow, is the revered local front runner, though she harbors a secret desire to be something other than a future Olympian. J.C. Cain is the hard living, drug taking, beer swilling Tanya Harding wanna-be from the wrong side of the tracks. Wendy Wodinsky is a great skater but quite fat and, consequently, the catalyst for any number of gratuitous fat jokes, most of them unfunny. They are all in awe of the Regional competition favorite, who is the initial Regional winner, but who, in a very funny scene, immediately runs into a problem in retaining the title.

A.J. Langer is quite good in the role of the competition's bad girl. Newcomer Barret Swatek performs admirably in the role of Veda. Marissa Jaret Winokur does what she can with the hand she is dealt, which is to be the butt of those intolerable, heavy-handed, fat jokes. Wendy Malick, as Veda's stage mother, is, as always, quite funny. Jason Alexander, who is usually quite good in whatever role he undertakes, simply embarrasses himself in this film. Kathy Griffin, however, does a funny turn as an aging competitor, and John Glover is quite amusing as a former Russian figure skater turned trainer.

In the film, the sly allusion to another film, "Mildred Pierce", which I initially thought to be intriguing, is merely a red herring. The only commonality is that in both films the mother, Mildred, has a pie making business, and the daughter, Veda, is a haughty miss, who ends up a great disappointment to her mother. Apart from that, there is no more common ground, making the whole allusion pointless and somewhat puzzling.

For those who follow the world of figure skating, the film will have some interest, as the role of skating official, Ricky Medford, is played with relish by figure skating great, Scott Hamilton. Moreover, the film is punctuated with cameos by figure skating stars Kristi Yamaguchi, Peter Caruthers, Steve Cousins, Tai Babilonia, and Randy Gardner, as regional judges.

Still, even the interjection of these luminaries cannot pull this film out of the morass created by the leaden clunker of a script. So, rent, rather than buy, this film. Moreover, if one is not a figure skating aficionado, deduct one star from my rating. Should one wish to see a funny mockumentary, one should see "Drop Dead Gorgeous", which does for the beauty pageant world what this film fails to do for the figure skating world.