Guilty or innocent, he is going to be the vehicle for her eventual redemption…Ĭlose and Bridges are terrific in the leads. After learning of the suicide of the man she and Krasny had wrongly prosecuted, Teddy joins Forrester’s defence. But at its heart, Jagged Edge is an old-fashion noir, and Teddy the burnt out fall guy with a stain on her soul. Initially, Teddy refuses to take part in the case. Now working in non-criminal cases in Forrester’s law firm, Forrester wants her as his defence attorney because a) he does not want to be surrounded by a group of high priced lawyers, b) she is a woman and c) she knows how Krasny works. This lawyer is Teddy Barnes (Glenn Close), a former assistant prosecutor who previously worked with Krasny and feels tarnished by a previous case in which an innocent man, Henry Styles, was wrongly convicted and later committed suicide. Forrester is in dire need of a strong legal defence, and his company lawyers believe they have a suitable candidate to represent him against the relentless DA. In an interview with the cleaner at the tennis club Forrester frequents, the cleaner recalls finding a hunting knife in Forrester’s locker before the murders took place. It is not long before Krasny’s investigators find something potentially incriminating. For Krasny, this is too good an opportunity to pass up - a sensational, high profile murder to close his legal career, and the public skewering of a major obstacle to his senatorial campaign. Owing to his tactics and reputation, Krasny has been the longtime target of attack in the editorials of Forrester’s newspapers. A man with dubious methods and aspirations for higher office, Krasny has a personal grudge with Forrester. From the moment he is introduced, it is clear that Krasny is not someone you want to cross. Their dedication to the romantic current that runs through R&B is thorough, steadfast, and genuinely doting.Things do not look good for Forrester, especially when predatory DA Thomas Krasny (Peter Coyote) starts to circle the case. While album titles like 2003’s Hard and 2007’s Baby Makin’ Project spoke to the quartet’s sway over bodies, 2010s team-ups with Tory Lanez (“The Trade”) and Jacquees (“Special”) recalled the carefully layered harmonies that first drove Jagged Edge into our hearts. Never ones to be tied down, Jagged Edge explored pop-rap with Nelly (“Where the Party At”) and old-school hip-hop with Rev Run of Run-DMC (2000’s “Let’s Get Married” remix). Heartbreak, that explored every angle of devotion with the help of alternatingly assertive and affectionate singles “He Can’t Love U,” “Promise,” and “Let’s Get Married”-blush-inducing love letters in audio form. Their silken vocals and uncanny interplay reeled us in on the gently earnest “I Gotta Be” from 1997’s debut, A Jagged Era. The So So Def label boss helped the quartet concoct a can’t-lose formula: sing from the heart, convincingly and masterfully, over any type of production, from carnal grooves to celebratory jams. Identical twins Brian and Brandon Casey teamed with church friend Kyle Norman and emerging singer Richard Wingo in mid-’90s Atlanta-a prime time and place to be taken under the wing of Jermaine Dupri. With their yearning ballads and amorous uptempo hits, Jagged Edge round the bases of R&B with ease.
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