ON THE EDGE

Featuring Bruce Dern:

  Major Film Awards include:

   Best Actor: Cannes Film Festival

     Best Actor: Academy Award Nomination

Wes Holman, a promising distance runner at odds with his father, a labor activist who sees sports as a diversion from working class struggle, was banned from the sport for cashing in plane tickets to track meets. Now in his 40s he tries to enter the Cielo Sea, an arduous mountain run with handicaps assigned each runner based on age and sex. But the head of the race is the same man who turned him in.

World Premiere: Mill Valley Film Festival, 1985

"On the Edge was an "upbeat, beautifully photographed film".The film is paced like a race -gaining steadily in excitement and finally sprinting forward to a dramatic conclusion. The director and the cinematographer (Stefan Czapsky) have composed exquisite shots of some of the most beautiful scenery in the United States. Bruce Dern works here to make his self-punishing quest believable. Quiet, secretive, his body conveying tough determination and his eyes suggesting hurt and depth, he is utterly convincing." - Nina Darnton, New York Times, 1986

" ...an angry, original, unpredictable movie. And it’s not about winning. The last few minutes of “On the Edge” are surprisingly moving, as the film makes its point with great dramatic images."

— Roger Ebert - Chicago Sun-Times, 1986

Also Featuring World Class runners: Marty Liquori, Gary Bjorklund, with John Marley as Wes' coach and Pam Grier (the video version.)

This film was inspired by the men, women and children who have run the Dipsea Race from Mill Valley over the ridges of Mt. Tamalpais to Stinson Beach from 1906 to the present.

Special Thanks:

To Barry Spitz, the Tamalpa Runners, Don Pickett, Wes Hildreth, the Dipsea Race (1905-Forever), and Michael Russell for a lifetime of On The Edge scholarship & Dipsea archival research.

Dedicated to the memory of John Marley and Luigi Alfano

Directed by

• Rob Nilsson

Writing Credits

• Roy Kissin

• Rob Nilsson

Cast:

• Bruce Dern as Wes

• Pam Grier as Cora

• Bill Bailey as Flash

• Jim Haynie as Owen Riley

• John Marley as Elmo

• Marty Liquori as TV Announcer

• Luigi Alfano as Pool Player

• Tom Nettles as TV Reporter

• Jean Shelton as Ellie

• Marcie Stack as Marcie

• Walt Stack as Walt

• Johnny Tidwell as Johnny

• Frank Triest as Tomaso

Cinematographer:

• Stefan Czapsky

Music by

• Herb Pilhofer

Editors:

• Richard Harkness

• Bert Lovitt

• Robert Shoup

Art Direction

• Steve and Hildy Burns

Sound Department

• Mark Berger (Supervising Re-recording Mixer)

• Robert Shoup (Supervising Sound Editor)

• Philip Perkins (Sound Mixer, Additional Sound)

• Various boom operators, sound editors, foley artists

Stunts

• David Cameron

• Mark Gahogan (Stunt Double: Bruce Dern)

• Nick Scoggin

Camera and Electrical

• Al Giddings (Underwater Photographer)

• Frederick Iannone (1st Assistant Camera)

Music Department

• Mark Adler (Music Editor)

Editorial Department

• Robert Dalva (Editorial Consultant)

• Bert Lovitt (Supervising Editor)

Associate Producer:

• Roy Kissin

• Karen J. McCabe

Producers:

• Jeffrey L. Hayes

• Rob Nilsson

Special Thanks

• Luis Colina

• Alan Splet

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