Blue Steel (1989 film)
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| Directed by | Kathryn Bigelow |
| Produced by | Edward R. Pressman Oliver Stone |
| Written by | Kathryn Bigelow Eric Red |
| Starring | Jamie Lee Curtis Ron Silver Clancy Brown Elizabeth Peña Louise Fletcher |
| Music by | Brad Fiedel |
| Distributed by | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| Release date(s) | May 1989 (France), March 16, 1990 (USA) |
| Running time | 102 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $8,217,997 (USA) |
Blue Steel is a 1989 action thriller film, directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown.
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[edit] Plot
Megan Turner (Curtis) is a rookie New York City policewoman who shoots and kills a suspect (Tom Sizemore) with her police-issue .38 Special Smith & Wesson Model 10 revolver while he's holding up a neighborhood market. The suspect's .44 Magnum Smith & Wesson Model 29 revolver lands on the floor of the market in the shopping area as the suspect is blown backward through the front window.
As she continues to the checkout area, Turner nearly steps on the suspect's gun directly in front of Eugene Hunt (Silver), a commodities trader, who is also a latent psychopath. Hunt takes the gun and slips away, committing several bloody and brutal murders over the next few days using the gun. Because the robber's weapon was not found at the scene, Turner is accused of killing an unarmed man.
While the officer attempts to clear her name with Chief Hoyt and her superiors, Hunt begins to romance the suspended Turner in a twisted love fetish. Turner arrests him but he is freed by his attorney, Mel Dawson, and continues to stalk Turner at her family home, an uncomfortable place where Turner remembers her mother being physically abused by her dad.
The story follows Turner as she fights to keep her badge and solve the murders with the help of Detective Nick Mann (Clancy Brown), while trying to figure out her relationship with a killer.
Eugene steps up his torment of Meg and turns up at her apartment later in the week, injures Meg, and guns down and kills her best friend Tracy. This causes Meg to have an emotional breakdown when she regains consciousness.
Later that day Nick and Meg spend the night together. Eugene turns up again and while Nick goes to the bathroom Eugene shoots him. Meg doesn't hear the shot because it was muffled. Eugene attacks her and she shoots him but he runs off. Meg and Nick, who are unconscious, are taken to the hospital.
Wanting to find Eugene and finish him off, she finally shoots and kills Eugene after a long and violent confrontation and a bullet in the shoulder. She is taken away by paramedics for treatment.
[edit] Cast
- Jamie Lee Curtis as Megan Turner
- Ron Silver as Eugene Hunt
- Clancy Brown as Nick Mann
- Louise Fletcher as Shirley Turner
- Philip Bosco as Frank Turner
- Richard Jenkins as Dawson
- Elizabeth Pena as Tracy
- Kevin Dunn as Asst. Chief Stanley Hoyt
- Tom Sizemore as Robber
[edit] See also
[edit] References
[edit] External links
- Blue Steel at the Internet Movie Database
- Blue Steel at AllRovi
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