---
title: 'Blue Steel (1989)'
type: 'film'
director: 'Kathryn Bigelow'
released: '1989-01-01'
runtime_minutes: 102
genres:
  - 'Action'
  - 'Crime'
  - 'Thriller'
countries:
  - 'United States'
canonical: 'https://cinepixo.com/movies/blue-steel-1989'
review_count: 0
imdb: 'https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099160/'
publisher: 'CinePixo'
---

# Blue Steel (1989)

1989 · 102 min · Action, Crime, Thriller · United States


## Synopsis

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.

## Credits

- **Editor:** [Lee Percy](https://cinepixo.com/people/lee-percy)
- **Producer:** [Edward R. Pressman](https://cinepixo.com/people/edward-r-pressman), [Oliver Stone](https://cinepixo.com/people/oliver-stone)
- **Director of Photography:** [Amir Mokri](https://cinepixo.com/people/amir-mokri)
- **Director:** [Kathryn Bigelow](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathryn-bigelow)
- **Screenplay:** [Kathryn Bigelow](https://cinepixo.com/people/kathryn-bigelow), [Eric Red](https://cinepixo.com/people/eric-red)
- **Original Music Composer:** [Brad Fiedel](https://cinepixo.com/people/brad-fiedel)

## Cast

- [Matt Craven](https://cinepixo.com/people/matt-craven)
- [Richard Jenkins](https://cinepixo.com/people/richard-jenkins)
- [Tom Sizemore](https://cinepixo.com/people/tom-sizemore)
- [Kevin Dunn](https://cinepixo.com/people/kevin-dunn)
- [Elizabeth Peña](https://cinepixo.com/people/elizabeth-pena)
- [Mary Mara](https://cinepixo.com/people/mary-mara)
- [Louise Fletcher](https://cinepixo.com/people/louise-fletcher)
- [Jamie Lee Curtis](https://cinepixo.com/people/jamie-lee-curtis)
- [John Capodice](https://cinepixo.com/people/john-capodice)
- [Ron Silver](https://cinepixo.com/people/ron-silver)
- [Becky Ann Baker](https://cinepixo.com/people/becky-ann-baker)
- [Mike Starr](https://cinepixo.com/people/mike-starr)
- [Clancy Brown](https://cinepixo.com/people/clancy-brown)
- [Lauren Tom](https://cinepixo.com/people/lauren-tom)
- [Philip Bosco](https://cinepixo.com/people/philip-bosco)

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