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Billionaire Charles Morse (Anthony Hopkins), who reads voraciously and remembers everything he reads, accompanies his much younger wife Mickey (Elle Macpherson), a beautiful fashion model, on a photo shoot in Alaska. When it becomes apparent to Charles that Mickey's photographer, Robert "Bob" Green (Alec Baldwin), has the hots for her, a subtle rivalry develops between them. As they are flying over the Alaskan wilderness seeking an Indian that Bob wants to photograph, their plane hits a flock of geese and crash lands, killing the pilot. Charles, Bob, and their friend Stephen (Harold Perrineau) are now forced to depend upon each other to survive in the wilderness, a situation not made any easier when they find themselves being stalked by a huge Kodiak bear.

The Edge is based on a screenplay by American playwright David Mamet. Originally titled The Bookworm, the title was changed to the "edgier" title, The Edge, three months before the movie was released.

The title is Lost in the Wilds: A Manual of Wilderness Survival by D. Croyle. The book is not a published book, having been made as a prop for the movie. The author, D. Croyle, was named after Darragh Croyle, the on set assistant to director Lee Tamahori.

Charles loads the wounded Bob into a canoe and begins paddling downstream, assuring Bob that they will get out okay. When the river drains into a large lake, they set up a camp on the shore and build a fire. As he lay near the fire, Bob asks Charles why he is trying to save the life of the man who tried to kill him, but Charles doesn't believe that Bob would have done it. Bob assures him that, indeed, he would have tried and asks Charles what he's intending to do when he gets back. Charles replies that he doesn't know and adds that he might not go back. Bob apologizes for trying to kill him and admits that Mickey was never in on it. Suddenly, Charles hears a helicopter in the distance. He waves his coat around trying to attract the pilot's attention. When it appears that the helicopter is going to fly away, he tosses some fir needles on the fire, sending up plumes of white smoke. The helicopter turns and heads toward them. Charles looks back at Bob to find him dead. Several hours later, when Charles gets back to the lodge with Bob's body, reporters are lined up wanting to talk to him. He goes straight to Mickey and hugs her. He places Bob's watch in her hand, a subtle way of letting her know that he knows about their relationship. He then turns to the reporters who ask him what happened to Bob and Stephen. "They died saving my life," is Charles' reply.

Viewers who have seen The Edge have recommended several movies about survival in the wilderness. For example, in Jeremiah Johnson (1972) (1972), Man in the Wilderness (1971) (1971), Touching the Void (2003) (1988), and Into the Wild (2007) (2007), men attempt to survive in the mountains of North America, Alaska, and British Columbia. Another highly recommended survival movie is Deliverance (1972) (1972) in which four men on a canoe trip face the Georgia back country. Similarly, in Southern Comfort (1981) (1981), a squad of National guards face danger in the Louisiana swamp. The Andes mountains are the setting for two survivor movies: Alive (1993) (1993) and Touching the Void (2003) (2003). Also similar to The Edge. in that two enemies are forced to rely on each other to survive, is Hell in the Pacific (1968) (1968), in which an American soldier and a Japanese soldier are marooned together on an island during World War II. Enemy Mine (1985) (1985) is a scifi that brings together a human and a Drac trying to survive together on a hostile planet. Survival on the ocean is the test faced by people in Alfred Hitchcock's Lifeboat (1944) (1944). In The Naked Prey (1965) (1966), a man is pursued in the African wild by tribesmen trying to kill him. There's also Cast Away (2000) (2000), in which a man is marooned alone on an island, and The Blue Lagoon (1980) (1980) in which two children are shipwrecked on a tropical island. The Grey (2011) (2011) and The Revenant (2015) (2015) may be of interest as well.