Jamie Lee Curtis, Ron Silver, Clancy Brown

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

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R, 104 min.

Directed by: Kathryn Bigelow

Release Date: March 16, 1990

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DVD Release Date: December 3, 2002

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  • January 22, 2009
    The movie reminds us again and again that Curtis is a female cop and that there is something wrong with that. Socially it's not normal for a woman to possess that power. She must have issues and her character in this movie does have issues with an abusive father, and she hasn't...( read more) been able to date a man long term, and she is perhaps too quick to draw her gun. There is lots of gun play throughout, most of which miraculously misses or only inflicts flesh wounds. Only at point blank range are bullets lethal according to this movie. Without much real development Curtis falls into the arms of Clancy Brown for a brief hot synthesizer sex scene. I kept thinking the villain was Tim Roth, but the actor was Ron Silver. Silver does play a scary psychopath who somehow roams around the city offing people without witnesses and jumping across town in no time to stay steps ahead of the cops.
  • July 7, 2007
    Jamie Lee Curtis does not look very good in a police uniform. There are some good suspense scenes in this film however.
  • June 10, 2007
    Jamie Lee Curtis (Carpenter films aside): poor. Ron Silver: poor. Kathryn "Point Break" Bigelow: oh, so very poor. Not a recipe for success.
  • April 28, 2006
    It just has to be said: Kathryn Bigelow is a guarantee for intelligent, psychological and exciting action cinema. Great film.
  • December 6, 2008
    This is a good movie

    A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
  • September 24, 2008
    Police drama with Jamie Lee Curtis playing the rookie.
  • June 10, 2008
    I loved this movie. Curtis plays a really good role of rookie cop on the trail of a "PSYCHONUT"
  • March 20, 2008
    I seem to remember it was good.
  • January 12, 2008
    sounds like 'the brave one' but on a whole nother level
  • December 31, 2007
    good but weird, i didnt understand that guy!

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