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Near Dark

film by Bigelow [1987]
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to the big screen with Near Dark, a vampire film that became a cult classic. Two years later she married director James Cameron (divorced 1991). 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


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to the big screen with Near Dark, a vampire film that became a cult classic. Two years later she married director James Cameron (divorced 1991). 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


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a vampire in Kathryn Bigelow’s Near Dark (1987).

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