The Cutting Edge

The Cutting Edge is a 1992 film about a spoiled, talented figure skater who is paired with an injured, retired college hockey player for Olympic figure skating.
 * Directed by Paul Michael Glaser. Written by Tony Gilroy. Starring D. B. Sweeney and Moira Kelly.

Doug Dorsey

 * Hey, there's only two things I do well, sweetheart, and skating's the other one!
 * [at the hospital after Kate had hit his nose with a hockey puck] Toe pick!
 * [preparing to lift Kate] You want me to put my hands where?
 * We're going to France! Parlez-vous Olympics!

Kate Moseley

 * [repeated line] Toe pick!
 * I swear, you let me down, and it'll take them a month to count the blade marks on your back.
 * Excuse me. Naked male insecurity really leaves me cold.
 * [referring to Doug] When we're through here, can we please teach it how to breathe with its mouth closed?

Others

 * Anton Pamchenko: Man and woman make flower. Douglas, you are stem. Katya, you are petal. Together, we make flower.

Dialogue

 * Rick Tuttle: I wanna see your ass in the air!
 * Kate Moseley: Until Hercules here learns how to lock his grip, this will have to do!
 * [Kate lifts up her skirt, showing her butt, and skates around the rink]


 * [Doug charges down the ramp to the arena, late for his Olympic hockey game]
 * Calgary cop: Name, son.
 * Doug Dorsey: Dorsey, U.S. Hockey!
 * Calgary cop: Hell, son, they're just about to start!


 * Anton Pamchenko: Jack, she is tremendous skater. Everyone is saying this. La petite, powerful, intelligent. But always is coming the big "B". What a bitch!
 * Jack Moseley: What about Spindler?
 * Anton Pamchenko: Spindler? Spindler say before he skate with her, he wear garlic from neck and sleep with cross. Who is left? [speaks in Russian] I am at bottom of barrel.
 * Jack Moseley: Then you find another barrel.


 * Kate Moseley: Just who the hell do you think you are?
 * Doug Dorsey: I know exactly who I am, sweetheart. I'm a guy who came a long way for lunch.
 * Kate Moseley: Well, please don't let me keep you from the trough.
 * Doug Dorsey: ["addressing Anton"] Hey, I'm sorry, buddy. I wouldn't wish this on a snake. I'm outta here.
 * Anton Pamchenko: [shouts in Russian] Enough! Introduction is over, conversation finished! Mouths closed, ears to be opened. [addressing Kate] Pair means...two! You have no partner. You are skating nowhere. [addressing Doug] And where are you going, eh, back to Siberia? Skating on small pond is big excitement, but believe me -- Gretsky --I am last person who is coming too look for you. Good. We skate!


 * Kate Moseley: What, do you shower once a week?
 * Doug Dorsey: Is that an invitation?


 * Kate Moseley: I told you this was ridiculous. [to Doug] Would you please put me down?
 * [Doug drops Kate on her rear]
 * Kate Moseley: [shouting] You, you cretin!
 * Doug Dorsey: Guess that move needs some work.


 * Kate Moseley: If you're so bored, why don't you read?
 * Doug Dorsey: You mean, like a book?
 * Kate Moseley: That is the generally accepted format, yes. What was the last book you read? You were in college?
 * Doug Dorsey: The last thing I read was a letter canceling my scholarship when I couldn't play anymore.
 * Kate Moseley: Okay, high school.
 * Doug Dorsey: I was a hockey player. The only thing I had to read was a scoreboard.
 * Kate Moseley: And they graduated you?
 * Doug Dorsey: They revered me. I was a god.
 * Kate Moseley: What a tragic commentary on our times.


 * Hale Forrest: I don't like to see her upset.
 * Doug Dorsey: If I was you, I'd invest in blindfolds.


 * Doug Dorsey: Well, actually, it's kind of interesting.
 * Woman in bar: I'll bet.
 * Drunk: Tell him.
 * Woman in bar #2: We're waiting.
 * Doug Dorsey: I've been, I've been doing a little figure skating.
 * Drunk: Damn.
 * Man in bar: What did he say?
 * Walter Dorsey: You been doin' what?
 * Old man back in bar: Finger painting?


 * [After Doug has just told Walter he's "been doing a little figure skating"]
 * Walter Dorsey: Are they gonna make you shave your legs?
 * Doug Dorsey: You know what? I don't even know why I asked!
 * Walter Dorsey: [laughs] Gotcha!


 * [Doug is carrying Kate's flowers and walking her back to her room; The long program is the next day]
 * Doug Dorsey: Man, this overnight thing is brutal. Why can't it be a double header, you know? Short program, long program. Same night, boom, we're outta here, you know what I mean?
 * Kate Moseley: Yeah, I know exactly what you mean.
 * Doug Dorsey: It's like, enough already! It's like...what's the word? Uh, you know what word I'm looking for? You know what I mean?
 * Kate Moseley: [trying to open her door] I don't know, uh, expectation?
 * Doug Dorsey: No, no, when you, uh...
 * Kate Moseley: Anticipation? Excitement?
 * Doug Dorsey: Foreplay!
 * Kate Moseley: [looks up in shock, stunned] Foreplay?
 * Doug Dorsey: Yeah, you know, like foreplay.
 * Kate Moseley: Yeah, I know what it means.
 * Doug Dorsey: Well, wouldn't you rather just get right to it?
 * Kate Moseley: What?
 * Doug Dorsey: Skating. Long program.
 * [Kate stares, wild-eyed]
 * Doug Dorsey: Chicago? Nationals? [holds up her bouquet] Flowers?
 * Kate Moseley: [still stunned, takes her flowers] Sleep. I'd rather sleep.
 * [She goes into her room, leaving Doug very confused]
 * Doug Dorsey: Sleep?


 * Kate Moseley: God's gift to reckless abandon revealed as nothing but a prude in wolf's clothing.
 * Doug Dorsey: You're a lousy drunk.
 * Kate Moseley: And you're a lousy date.
 * Doug Dorsey: It didn't have to be like this.


 * [Doug chases Kate into the hotel elevator]
 * Doug Dorsey: Kate! Kate, will you wait a minute?
 * Kate Moseley: Don't! Don't even try! Just looking at you makes me sick! To think I was coming to apologize! Lorie Peckarovski!
 * Doug Dorsey: Hey -- were you, or were you not, engaged to be married until last night?
 * Kate Moseley: Hardly the point...
 * Doug Dorsey: You threw me out of your room!
 * Kate Moseley: Count your blessings. She may not have waited much longer!
 * Doug Dorsey: That's not how it happened!
 * Kate Moseley: Spare me the details.
 * Doug Dorsey: Where the hell do you get off?
 * Kate Moseley: Me?
 * Doug Dorsey: This is my fault? From the first day I walk into your rink, you treat me like a hired hand! Then one night, you get drunk, I'm supposed to roll over and thank my lucky stars? Sorry, I don't downshift that fast!
 * Kate Moseley: Get out of my way!
 * Doug Dorsey: No problem! I've been practicing that move for a year and a half!
 * [Kate runs out of the elevator; people are laughing at them]
 * Doug Dorsey: Blind date...


 * Anton Pamchenko: Do you know what I think would be wonderful? If you would go out there today and skate for these people the way I have seen you skate. Enjoy each other.
 * Kate Moseley: What's the matter?
 * Doug Dorsey: Nothing.
 * Kate Moseley: Are you all right?
 * Doug Dorsey: Fine. Kate, I'm sorry. My timing-- I know it stinks, but...I just keep thinking this thing with us...It's gonna go away. I keep thinking if I can just keep moving and checking, I'll get clear, but...Do you understand what I'm telling you?
 * Kate Moseley: I don't wanna fight anymore.
 * Doug Dorsey: No. I mean, yeah, I don't wanna fight.
 * Kate Moseley: Look, we have to skate.
 * Doug Dorsey: This won't wait. Kate, maybe I wasn't ready. Maybe- Maybe you didn't give me much of a chance. Maybe-- I don't know. I just-- I just--
 * Announcer: Nine-six. Nine-three.
 * Doug Dorsey: Kate, somewhere in the middle of all this I fell in love with you.
 * Official: You may take the ice.
 * Doug Dorsey: I'm saying I love you. I'm saying it out loud. Don't say we're not right for each other because we may not be right for anybody else.
 * Official: You have to go on.
 * Doug Dorsey: Will you shut up a minute. It can't be any harder to stay together than it was to stay apart.
 * Official: Thirty seconds.
 * Doug Dorsey: Will you wait a minute. Kate. I need you. I need you.
 * Kate Moseley: We're doing the Pamchenko.
 * Doug Dorsey: What?
 * Kate Moseley: Oh, you heard me.


 * Doug Dorsey: Think I'm doing this to get a program out of you?
 * Kate Moseley: You wanna win, don't you?
 * Doug Dorsey: No. It's no good, Kate. It's too dangerous.
 * Kate Moseley: Then we’re agreed. We're putting it in.


 * Kate Moseley: It's in.
 * Doug Dorsey: It's out.
 * Kate Moseley: It's in.
 * Doug Dorsey: It's out!
 * Kate Moseley: It's in!
 * Doug Dorsey: What difference does it make?
 * Kate Moseley: The difference is...I'm in the mood to kick a little ass.


 * Doug Dorsey: You didn't have to.
 * Kate Moseley: Yes, I did.
 * Doug Dorsey: Why?
 * Kate Moseley: Because I love you.
 * Doug Dorsey: Just remember who said it first.
 * [They kiss ]

Taglines

 * The King of the Rink is about to meet America's Ice Queen.
 * When true love breaks the ice. Theirs is a love/skate relationship.
 * The ultimate love/skate relationship.

Main cast

 * D. B. Sweeney - Doug Dorsey
 * Moira Kelly - Kate Moseley
 * Roy Dotrice - Anton Pamchenko
 * Terry O'Quinn - Jack Moseley
 * Dwier Brown - Hale Forrest