Taglines: For a rookie cop, there’s one thing more dangerous than uncovering a killer’s fantasy. Becoming it.
Blue Steel movie storyline. 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.
Blue Steel is a 1990 American action thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow and starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, and Clancy Brown. The film was initially set to be released by Vestron Pictures and its offshoot label Lightning Pictures, but it was ultimately released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer which acquired the film due to Vestron’s financial problems and eventual bankruptcy. Lawrence Kasanoff, Vestron’s head of production at the time, green lit and produced the movie.
Blue Steel (1990)
Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow
Starring: Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown, Elizabeth Peña, Louise Fletcher, Philip Bosco, Richard Jenkins, Kevin Dunn, Tom Sizemore, Mary Mara, Mike Hodge, Mike Starr
Screenplay by: Kathryn Bigelow, Eric Red
Production Design by: Toby Corbett
Cinematography by: Amir Mokri
Film Editing by: Lee Percy
Costume Design by: Richard Shissler
Set Decoration by: Susan Kaufman
Music by: Brad Fiedel
MPAA Rating: R for adult situations, language and violence.
Distributed by: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Release Date: March 16, 1990
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