The Edge is a 1997 survival and relationship drama film directed by Lee Tamahori starring Anthony Hopkins as billionaire magazine publisher Charles Morse and Alec Baldwin as Bob Green, one of his ambitious employees. Harold Perrineau also co-stars as the group's photographer Stephen. Elle Macpherson has a supporting role as Hopkins' trophy wife and model for his magazine. Her presence in the beginning of the movie acts as a catalyst for the film's bold male rivalry between Baldwin and Hopkins. L. Q. Jones has a supporting role as an innkeeper.

The movie was written by David Mamet and, despite the unusual setting, it touches upon many themes common to Mamet's other works, including the use of strong male characters, tough posturings and playful surprises. The story explores, through action and intricate dialog, the strong male survival instincts of these characters in terms of their competition with each other and with their environment.

The Edge is an American sketch comedy television series created by David Mirkin which ran on the FOX Network from 1992 to 1993. David Mirkin, a writer and producer for Newhart, Get a Life and The Simpsons, also created another series for Julie Brown entitled The Julie Show. Bill Plympton cartoons were used as bumpers between the sketches. Music was provided by Steve Hampton (theme song composer), Stephen Graziano, B.C. Smith, and Christopher Tyng, among others.

The series featured a running gag in which the entire cast would get killed off in various ways in each episode before the first commercial break. One episode featured the cast getting hit by a bus; another had the set falling apart and crushing them; others involved explosions, decapitations, immolation, hangings, and impalement by arrows; one episode had the troupe being sucked into a vortex.

Another distinct feature of the show was animations by Bill Plympton between certain sketches.

The show would feature sketches that would revolve around original characters such as gun-toting All-American family and a cowboy known as Cracklin' Crotch. But the series would also skewer pop culture. One notable episode spoofed TV sweeps by promising ratings-grabbing events such as a birth, a wedding and a death.

The series was known for being a vehicle for actress/comedienne Julie Brown. It also is notable for launching the careers of Tom Kenny (SpongeBob SquarePants), Jennifer Aniston (Friends), and Wayne Knight (Seinfeld and several animated series). The Edge also featured the talents of Carol Rosenthal (formerly of In Living Color). Edd Hall (The Tonight Show with Jay Leno) provided the show's voiceovers.

Other regulars of the series included James Stephens III, Jill Talley, Rick Overton, Paul Feig, and Alan Ruck.

How Far is Too Far?

This FOX comedy featured a lethal opening sequence each week, followed by several short, humorous skits and parodies of television commercials. Several of the players from this short-lived show furthered their comedy careers in more successful venues. Written by Tad Dibbern

"A troubled antiwar activist plans to assassinate the President of the United States. His resolve forces others in a fragmented and disillusioned group of political allies to face the threat of government counterintelligence and the temptations of middle-age security, and to reexamine their commitment to radical action." Written by Laurence Kardish, Museum of Modern Art

Edge is the story of Edward 'Edge' Jones (Edge), a man with no memory of the event in the Persian Gulf war that left him physically scarred and lost in a civilian world that offers him no direction. From the past comes Lennox, a fellow soldier from the war, who invites him to go on a road trip with the promise of regaining the adventure and camaraderie they knew in the military. Edge is captured in the attraction of regaining his identity as a soldier and agrees to go, unaware of Lennox's all-consuming need for the powers of a warrior in battle. In the beginning, the trip re-awakens Edge's spirit, but gradually his memory returns as well, and as the events of the past become more horribly clear, so does Lennox's 'mission' become evident, and Edge finds himself in a nightmarish world of betrayal, both past and present. On a parallel road trip, a young girl, Berry, leads her mother on a quest to photograph UFO's, presumably for initiation into a society of witnesses. True motives involving the denial of her father's death, however, push below the surface of Berry's mission. Moving deeper into open country, the mother struggling to understand her daughter's feelings, the two women unknowingly get closer to the point where their own journey will converge with that of Edge and Lennox. Written by Anonymous

A model has her rich, much older husband come with her to a photo shoot. But when their plane crashes in the middle of nowhere, a strong mind game erupts between the jealous husband and the younger photographer as they try to get back to civilization. Written by Steve Richer

Billionaire Charles Morse accompanies his supermodel wife Mickey to photo shoot at Alaska. The shoot is to be made by fashion photographer Robert Green. To find specific Indian for the shoot, they fly to even more distant location, where their small plane crashes into a lake. To survive in the woods full of man-killing bears they need each other, but the smarter of the men - Charles is suspicious that Robert is having an affair with his wife. Written by Gustaf Molin