The Cutting Edge (1992)
Directed by Paul Michael Glaser
Two former Olympians, one a figure skater and the other a hockey player, pin their hopes of one last shot at Olympic glory on one another. That is, of course, if they can keep from killing each other in the process...
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What critics compared The Cutting Edge to
The others were 1992’s The Cutting Edge and 1993’s Cool Runnings, both of which are about unlikely competitors achieving greatness (although The Cutting Edge was as much a romance as a sports movie).
With its frilly, glittered unitards and grave disposition, figure skating is so close to self-parody that it doesn't take much to turn a film about the sport into uproarious comedy — just look at the accidentally hilarious drama "The Cutting Edge" (1992).
The husband and wife video directing team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (MTV's "The Cutting Edge") make their feature debut with Michael Arndt's 'by the numbers plus quirks' screenplay and knock it out of the park.
As much of a letdown as The Running Man was, he directed The Cutting Edge, a criminally forgotten rom-com.
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Though he won a permanent spot in the hearts of 10-year-old girls everywhere by penning the early '90s tween romance favorite The Cutting Edge, screenwriter Tony Gilroy is best known as the scribe behind Matt Damon's Bourne franchise.
And would you believe "the ultimate love/skate relationship" was penned by Tony Gilroy (the Bourne films and Michael Clayton), now one of Hollywood's most in-demand scribes?