Blue Steel (1989)
- Directed by
- Kathryn Bigelow
- Genre
- action film, crime film, thriller film
- Country
- United States
- Runtime
- 1h 42m
- Rated
- R
- Rating
- 5.8 of 10 from 465 voters
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
A rookie New York police officer kills an armed criminal in self-defense on her first day. The incident attracts a dangerous admirer who steals the man's gun and begins stalking her.
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What happens
Blue Steel is a 1990 American neo-noir action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver and Clancy Brown. The film presents a harrowing deconstruction of male gaze, misogyny at both psychological and institutional levels, and the terrors of urban womanhood in the late 20th Century; through the experience of a New York police officer who shoots and kills an armed criminal on her first day of active duty - only for a witness of the incident to steal the criminal's weapon and begin tormenting her life as the object of a homicidal obsession. Blue Steel was originally set to be released by Vestron Pictures and its offshoot label Lightning Pictures, but the film was ultimately acquired by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer due to Vestron's financial problems and eventual bankruptcy. The film was green lit and produced by Lawrence Kasanoff, Lightning’s head of production at that time. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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