On the Edge (2001)

Directed by

Jana Sue Memel, Anne Heche, Mary Stuart Masterson

Genre

anthology film, science fiction film, comedy television program

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 35m

Rated

R

Rating

5.5 of 10 from 11 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This is an anthology film with three science fiction stories framed by a segment that ties them together. Each story was directed by a different actress and adapted from a short story.

anthologicalspeculativeuneventonally variedthought-provokingfragmentedlow-keyexperimental

What happens

On the Edge is a 2001 television film, broadcast on Showtime. It is an anthology film, with each segment directed by an actress with few or no prior directing credits and adapted from an existing science fiction short story. The film was part of the larger Showtime Directed By series. The film consists of a frame segment, directed by Jana Sue Memel, and three story segments. The first, "Happy Birthday", was directed by Helen Mirren and was based on The Placement Test by Keith Laumer. The second segment, "The Other Side", was directed by Mary Stuart Masterson and based on Lifeboat on a Burning Sea by Bruce Holland Rogers. The third segment, "Reaching Normal", was directed by Anne Heche and based on Command Performance by Walter M. Miller Jr. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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