# The Edge (film)

The Edge is a 1997 survival and relationship drama film about an intellectual billionaire and two other men who struggle to band together and survive after getting stranded in the Alaskan wilderness with a blood-thirsty Kodiak Bear hunting them down.
    Directed by Lee Tamahori. Written by David Mamet.

## Charles Morse

* We're all put to the test... but it never comes in the form or at the point we would prefer, does it?
* Never feel sorry for a man who owns a plane
* What one man can do, another can do!
* Because today, I'm going to kill the motherfucker!
* Did you know you can shine shoes with the inside of a banana peel?
* Just because you're lost doesn't mean to say that your compass is broken.

## Stephen

* A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow.

## Bob

* Hey... I'm dying. I'm dying and I never did a god damn thing.
* That doesn't feel South, Charles.

## Dialogue

    Charles Morse: [moments before the plane flies into a flock of wild birds] So what do you value me for, Bob?
    Robert Green: I like your style, your wife's pretty cute too.
    Charles Morse: So how are you planning to kill me?
    [Stephen, Charles and Robert walking up to peak of mountain looking for a place to start a signal fire]
    Stephen: Robert why do you think they'll even come looking for us?
    Robert Green: Our friend is a billionaire, you know what happens when you misplace one?
    Charles Morse: You know, I once read an interesting book which said that, uh, most people lost in the wilds, they, they die of shame.
    Stephen: What?
    Charles Morse: Yeah, see, they die of shame. "What did I do wrong? How could I have gotten myself into this?" And so they sit there and they... die. Because they didn't do the one thing that would save their lives.
    Robert Green: And what is that, Charles?
    Charles Morse: Thinking.
    Charles Morse: [after successfully fighting a bear] For all my life, I've have wanted to do something that was, um, that was unequivocal.
    Robert Green: Well, Charlie, I certainly think this qualifies.
    Charles Morse: Or something.
    Robert Green: See, Charles, that's why they call it personal growth. A month ago, old Smokey here would've reared up, you probably would've called your lawyer!
    Charles Morse: Nah, I wouldn't do that to an animal.
    Robert Green: [Eating] Wish we had some salt.
    Charles Morse: You know, you can, uh... you can season meat with gunpowder. Did you know that?
    Robert Green: Wish we had some gunpowder.
    Charles Morse: You saved me.
    Robert Green: Get over it, Charles - I just need you to navigate.
    Charles Morse: You saved my life.
    Robert Green: Well, I couldn't kill you with Stephen around. I'd have to kill him too, and he's the only one that knows how I like my coffee.
    Charles Morse: Come on, you saved my life.
    Robert Green: Buy me something nice when we get home.
    Charles Morse: How'd you like your coffee?
    Robert Green: Huh. I like my coffee like I like my women.
    Stephen: Bitter and murky!
    Reporter #1: Mr. Morse, what happened to your friends?
    Reporter #2: How did they die?
    Charles Morse: They died... saving my life.

## Cast

* Anthony Hopkins - Charles Morse
* Alec Baldwin - Robert Green
* Harold Perrineau - Steve
* Elle Macpherson - Mickey Morse
* L.Q. Jones - Styles
* Kathleen Wilhoite - Ginny
* David Lindstedt - James
* Mark Kiely - The Mechanic
* Eli Gabay - Jet Pilot
* Larry Musser - Amphibian Pilot
* Gordon Tootoosis - Jack Hawk
* Kelsa Kinsly - Reporter
* Bart the Bear - The Kodiak bear

## External links

* The Edge quotes at the Internet Movie Database