Megan Turner (Jamie Lee Curtis) is
a rookie cop who witnesses a robbery in progress on her first night on the
job. With her more experienced partner using the men's room, Megan decides
to take action on her own. She creeps into the supermarket where a man (Tom
Sizemore in a small role) is holding the clerk at gunpoint. Megan gets close
enough to shoot the gunman, and calls out for him to drop his weapon. He
spins the gun toward her, and she unloads her service revolver into his
chest. His gun goes flying, and a bystander, Eugene Hunt (Ron Silver),
surreptitiously picks it up and takes it home. Megan's superiors, unable to
confirm that the man she shot was armed, suspend her. Eugene, a wealthy
commodities broker, becomes obsessed with Megan. He sets up an "accidental"
meeting between them and begins dating her, romancing her with fancy
restaurants and helicopter rides over Manhattan. He also carves her name
into the bullets he uses to gun down strangers in the street. A tough
homicide detective, Nick Mann (Clancy Brown of The Shawshank Redemption),
gets Megan's gun and badge back so she can help him track down the psycho
killer. Eventually, Megan realizes that Eugene is the killer, but he uses
his money and influence to elude the law, and he starts coming after Megan's
friends and family. Megan's determination to bring Eugene to justice quickly
becomes a very personal obsession. This intense cop drama, Blue Steel, was
director Kathryn Bigelow's major studio follow-up to her well-received indie
vampire flick, Near Dark. Bigelow co-wrote both films with Eric Red (The
Hitcher). | Jamie Lee Curtis | Megan Turner |
| Ron Silver | Eugene Hunt |
| Clancy Brown | Nick Mann |
| Elizabeth Peņa | Tracy Perez |
| Louise Fletcher | Shirley Turner |
| Philip Bosco | Frank Turner |
| Richard Jenkins | Attorney Mel Dawson |
| William J. Marshall | Hood |
| Ralph Nieves | Homicide Detective |
| Heidi Kempf | TV Announcer |
| Bellina Logan | Rookie No. 1 |
| Mary Mara | Wife |
| Skipp Lynch | Instructor |
| Joe Jamrog | Doorman |
| Chris Walker | Officer Jeff Travers |
| Lauren Tom | Reporter |
| Reginald Wells | TV Announcer #1 |
| Carol Schneider | Reporter #2 |
| James Shannon | Maitre D'Hotel |
| Mike Starr | Superintendent |
| Larry Silvestri | Precinct Cop |
| Tom Sizemore | Wool Cap |
| William Wise | Internal Affairs Man |
| Matt Craven | Howard |
| Sam Coppola | PBA Representative |
| Toni Darling | Prostitute |
| Michael Philip del Rio | John Perez |
| Thomas Dorff | Businessman Victim |
| Doug Barron | Reporter #1 |
| Al Cerullo | Helicopter Pilot |
| L. Peter Callender | Reporter |
| John Capodice | Trial Commissioner |
| David Ilku | Counterman |
| Frank Girardeau | Uniform Cop |
| Becky Gelke | Nurse #1 |
| Mike Hodge | Police Commissioner |
| Andrew Hubatsek | Cashier |
| James Drescher | Punk |
| Kevin Dunn | Assistant Chief Stanley Hoyt |
| Faith Geer | Lady Bum |
| Harley Flanagan | |
| Markus Flanagan | Husband |
Genre/Type Action, Police Detective Film, Action Thriller
Produced by Lightning Pictures / MGM / United Artists / Vestron
Release Mar 16, 1990 (USA)
Released by MGM-UA Distribution
Running time - 102 min.
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