# Blue Steel (1990)

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**Runtime**: 102 min
**Genres**: Thriller
**Directed by**: Kathryn Bigelow
**Written by**: Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Red
**Starring**: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco

> *For a rookie cop, there's one thing more dangerous than uncovering a killer's fantasy...becoming it.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

First snowfall on a Queens sidewalk. A single revolver clicks empty.

Turner's first shot at 17 beats too soon. Her badge gets confiscated with the murder weapon. Same gun reappears embossed with her name, fired at strangers she doesn’t recognize.

Bigelow sharpens a thriller’s edge until the steel stays cold.

**Mood tags**: gut-punch, paranoid, raw

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