premise: Jamie Lee Curtis had a starring role in John Carpenter's Halloween.
hypothesis: Halloween is a 1978 American independent slasher film directed and scored by John Carpenter , co-written with producer Debra Hill , and starring Donald Pleasence and Jamie Lee Curtis in her film debut . Jamie Lee Curtis . She made her film debut in 1978 by starring as Laurie Strode in John Carpenter 's Halloween ( 1978 ) .