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discussed in biography
- In Kathryn Bigelow
  She described Blue Steel (1989), which she cowrote and directed, as a “woman’s action film.” The crime drama starred Jamie Lee Curtis as a policewoman who is stalked by a serial killer. Bigelow’s next film, Point Break (1991), centres on a FBI agent (played by Keanu Reeves)…
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history of film
- In History of film: United States
  …Dark (1987); the police thriller Blue Steel (1989); Point Break (1991), about an undercover FBI agent; and the science-fiction drama Strange Days (1995). Her accomplished Iraq War drama The Hurt Locker (2008) made her the first woman to win an Academy Award for best director, and it also received an…
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Curtis
- In Jamie Lee Curtis: Comedies: Trading Places, A Fish Called Wanda, and True Lies
  In Kathryn Bigelow’s crime drama Blue Steel (1990), Curtis played a police officer who is stalked by a serial killer. Described as a “woman’s action film,” it failed to find an audience. She reunited with Ackroyd in the family drama My Girl (1991). During this time, she also starred with…
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Fletcher
- In Louise Fletcher
  …credits included Kathryn Bigelow’s thriller Blue Steel (1989), Altman’s The Player (1992), and the sci-fi thriller Virtuosity (1995).
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