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Blue Steel (1989) (Blu-Ray) (*)

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Screened, competed or awarded at:
Other Film Festival Awards

Language Selections:
English ( DTS 5.1 )
Spanish ( Dolby Digital 2.0 )
Spanish ( Subtitles )

Product Origin/Format:
Spain ( Blu-Ray/Region B )

Running Time:
100 min

Aspect Ratio:
Widescreen (1.78:1)

Special Features:
Interactive Menu
Scene Access

Movie filmed in 1989 and produced in:
United States ( USA, Canada )

Directed By:
Kathryn Bigelow

Written By:
Kathryn Bigelow
Eric Red

Actors:
Jamie Lee Curtis ..... Megan Turner
Ron Silver ..... Eugene Hunt
Clancy Brown ..... Nick Mann
Elizabeth Peña ..... Tracy Perez
Louise Fletcher ..... Shirley Turner
Philip Bosco ..... Frank Turner
Kevin Dunn ..... Asst. Chief Stanley Hoyt
Richard Jenkins ..... Attorney Mel Dawson
Markus Flannagan ..... Husband
Mary Mara ..... Wife
Skipp Lynch ..... Instructor
Mike Hodge ..... Police Commissioner
Mike Starr ..... Superintendant
Chris Walker ..... Officer Jeff Travers
Tom Sizemore ..... Wool Cap

Synopsis:

On her first day on the job, NYPD officer Megan Turner, the lone officer on the scene, shoots and kills the perpetrator of a supermarket hold-up. Since no gun was found on the perpetrator's person or at the scene and none of the witnesses could corroborate Megan's story definitively that the perpetrator was indeed wielding a gun, she is suspended from active duty. She is quickly albeit temporarily reinstated to the position of homicide detective because the spent shell casing from the bullet used in a subsequent murder had her name carved on it. This murder ends up being only the first in a series. Working on the case with fellow homicide detective Nick Mann, Megan initially has no idea who in her life could be the murderer. In short order, the murderer does show himself to her. He is commodities trader Eugene Hunt who she met immediately following her suspension and who she has since dated. He also implies to her that he was in the supermarket at the time of the hold-up and that he fled the scene with the perpetrator's gun. The supermarket shooting caused a psychotic break in him which resulted in among other things his obsession with her. However, beyond his implications only to her of being the murderer, Megan has no hard evidence that would stand up in a court of law that Eugene is indeed the murderer. Megan has to convince her colleagues, especially Nick, that she is telling the truth about Eugene, while stopping him from killing again and equally as important stopping him from his continued psychological torture of her.

With Blue Steel, Bigelow wrote and directed one of the rare contemporary police thrillers that can be read on another level-as a pointed questioning of whether the Hollywood action film, with its deep roots in misogynistic violence, can be used to critique itself. Jamie Lee Curtis stands out as a zealous rookie policewoman whose career choice poses an overt challenge to the patriarchal norm, a point provocatively made by Bigelow's artful emphasis on the blatant phallocentrism of the policeman's tools and trade. Frighteningly fast-paced and suspenseful, Blue Steel follows the increasingly disorienting cat-and-mouse game that suddenly unfolds between the novice cop and a vicious killer. For all of its intellectual sophistication, Blue Steel remains a viscerally charged experience, seething with palpable anger, sorrow and fear.

A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.

This product was added to our catalog on Thursday 26 April, 2018.

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