Episode 661: Walking the Edge (1985)

The Projection Booth Podcast

The Projection Booth

Film Reviews, Film Interviews, Film History, Tv & Film

4.8 • 686 Ratings

🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 74 minutes

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Summary

We continue a month of requests with one from listener Jordan Nash,1985's Walking the Edge. Written by Curt Allen and directed by Norman Meisel, the film stars Nancy Kwan, as Christine Holloway, a woman whose son and husband are slaughtered by Joe Spinell as Brusstar and his gang of goons. She’s rescued by a cuckolded taxi driver who’s in dutch to the mob, Jason Walk, played by Robert Forster.

Rahne Alexander and Mark Begley join Mike to discuss this above-average crime thriller.

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0:00.0	Hold your ears, folks.
0:06.8	It's showtime.
0:08.6	People pay good money to see this movie.
0:10.9	When they go out to a theater, they want cold sodas, hot popcorn, and no monsters in the projection booth.
0:17.3	Everyone pretend podcasting isn't boring.
0:20.1	Shut it off.
0:25.5	Turn it off.
0:26.8	Oh! Walking the edge in a violent city.
0:45.3	Dad! Run, Dad, run!
0:48.3	Family torn apart, a woman needs to settle the score.
0:56.0	If he was pushing drugs to young kids, maybe he deserved it.
1:01.0	But Danny was my baby. My son.
1:07.0	He was an easy-going man, a nice guy with unfulfilled dreams, who's been pushed too far.
1:13.5	You'll pick up and deliver, otherwise keep your friggin' mouth shut. Is that clear?
1:16.7	My friends still talk to me that way.
1:18.3	I think I'm tired of getting pushed around.
1:20.2	A man and a woman, two strangers brought together by chance, held together by fate.
1:25.2	They were one step ahead of sudden death.
1:43.3	Ah! held together by fate. They were one step ahead of sudden death. Son of a bitch! Sine of a bitch! This is big time bad business, man.
1:54.0	I mean somebody got a goddamn fry and you were right in the middle.
1:58.0	That's this car, Bruce. Get in my fucking car.
2:02.6	How you can get a goddamn a piece of shit like that?
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