Stars: D.B. Sweeney, Moira Kelly, Roy Dotrice, Terry O'Quinn

Director: Paul Michael Glaser

Summary: This story revolves around a top ice-hockey player who is robbed of his career through injury, and a talented female figure skater who is unable to find a male partner who meets her 'standards.' An Olympic Gold is a faraway dream for them both... until someone sets up a blind date...

Straight blades meet toe-picks as a handsome ice hockey player has his professional career cut short from an accident, and then meets a figure skater whose prima donna attitude sends every prospective partner running--and his heart a flutter.

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The Cutting Edgeis a 1991 romantic sports comedy-drama set in the allegedly exciting world of Olympic-level figure-skating. Ice maiden Moira Kelly has been reared from birth by her driving father (Stepfatherstar Terry O'Quinn adding a creepy touch) to be a champion, but is constantly let down because she's so unpleasant that no one wants to be her partner. On the other side of the tracks, macho jock DB Sweeney is invalided out of ice hockey and recruited by Kelly's Russian coach (Roy Dotrice) to team up with her. They hate each other on sight but develop into a potential winning team, and, in between being nasty to each other, fall in nauseating lurve. The tension builds up as to who is going to win that Olympic gold medal in the finale (guess!) and whether the leads will be able to hold off strangling each other in time for the big last-minute clinch.

The whole thing is a stew of mismatched couple and underdog-triumphs-in-sport clichés, directed by ex-Starsky and Hutchstar Paul Michael Glaser, but it really falls down because Sweeney and Kelly obviously can't skate for toffee. The on-ice sequences, choreographed by medal-winning Robin Cousins in an only-job-he's-fit-for turn, employ doubles and tricky editing, which means the climactic struggle has to be quite literally skated over.

On the DVD:The Cutting Edgecomes to DVD in an anamorphic widescreen print that's in good shape but with that slightly feathery colour common in pre-digital transfers. There are English, German, French and Italian tracks; plus a single measly trailer.--Kim Newman

Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Special Features:	Trailers - 1. Original Theatrical Trailer, Scene Access
Year:	1991
Release Date:	May 6, 2002
Runtime:	97 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	15989 D V D
Keywords:	Comedy, General, Edge, Cutting, Romantic
Genre:	Comedy