Rookie cop Megan Turner orders a burglar to drop his gun. He whirls to shoot. Too late. Turner fires, killing him instantly. When someone lifts the assailant's gun from the crime scene, the police hold Turner accountable for killing an unarmed man. That same someone carves Turner's name into the bullets and uses them in a series of murders. Turner teams up with detective Nick Mann to clear her name and catch the killer. But she is drawn into a deadly game of wits with a psychopath who's always one step ahead… and much closer than she thinks!
Direction
Bigelow's POV gun-barrel shots that make YOU the weapon.
Acting
Ron Silver's unhinged commodities trader—Patrick Bateman beta, somehow scarier.
Cinematography
Neon-noir NYC that looks like it smells like cigarettes and fear.
Director
Kathryn Bigelow
Jamie Lee Curtis
Officer Megan Turner
Ron Silver
Eugene Hunt
Clancy Brown
Detective 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 Flanagan
Husband
Mary Mara
Wife
Mike Hodge
Police Commissioner
Mike Starr
Superintendent
Tom Sizemore
Wool Cap
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Bigelow divorced James Cameron and made this immediately after—some read it as exorcising their collaboration's macho energy.
Released months after the '87 crash, Eugene embodies finance-bro nihilism; Ron Silver reportedly studied actual traders' amorality.
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