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The Long Kiss Goodnight
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.
1996 · Directed by Renny Harlin · 121 min · Crime · Action · Mystery · Thriller · Screenplay in the scene database · 16 frames
Tagline
What's forgotten is not always gone.
Plot
Samantha Caine is a schoolteacher in small-town Honesdale, Pennsylvania, living with her boyfriend Hal and her daughter Caitlin. Eight years earlier, she was found on a New Jersey beach, pregnant with Caitlin, and totally amnesiac. Having never remembered her real name, "Samantha" has hired several ineffective private investigators to discover her past, the latest being the down-on-his-luck Mitch Henessey.
Over Christmas, Samantha is involved in a car accident and suffers a mild concussion; upon recovering, she finds she possesses skills with a knife that she cannot explain. Shortly thereafter, their home is broken into by "One-Eyed Jack", a convict who escaped from jail after seeing Samantha's face on television. Samantha demonstrates her fighting prowess by killing Jack bare-handed. Fearing she poses a danger to Hal and Caitlin, she leaves with Mitch, who has found a suitcase belonging to her, to find answers.
The suitcase contains a note directing them to Dr. Nathan Waldman. They arrange to meet at a train station, unaware that government agents are tapping his calls. En route, Samantha discovers the bottom of the suitcase contains a disassembled sniper rifle which she can expertly reassemble, along with other weapons.
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Crew
- Screenplay: Shane Black
- Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro
- Edited by: William Goldenberg
- Music: Alan Silvestri
- Production design: Howard Cummings
- Produced by: Stephanie Austin, Shane Black, Renny Harlin, Geena Davis
Cast
- Geena Davis as Samantha Caine / Charly Baltimore
- Samuel L. Jackson as Mitch Henessey
- Patrick Malahide as Leland Perkins
- Craig Bierko as Timothy
- Brian Cox as Dr. Nathan Waldman
- Sharon Washington as Fran Henessey
- David Morse as Luke / Daedalus
- G.D. Spradlin as President
- Tom Amandes as Hal
- Yvonne Zima as Caitlin Caine
Production
- Country: United States of America, Canada
- Language: English
- Studios: The Steve Tisch Company, New Line Cinema, Forge
- Budget: $65,000,000
- Box office: $89,456,761
- Themes: martial arts, amnesia, assassination, strong woman, escape, chase, hostage, spy, new identity, dark comedy
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