The Long Kiss Goodnight
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| The Long Kiss Goodnight | |
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| Directed by | Renny Harlin |
| Produced by | Stephanie Austin Shane Black Renny Harlin |
| Written by | Shane Black |
| Starring | Geena Davis Samuel L. Jackson Patrick Malahide Craig Bierko Brian Cox David Morse Tom Amandes Yvonne Zima |
| Music by | Alan Silvestri |
| Cinematography | Guillermo Navarro |
| Editing by | William Goldenberg |
| Distributed by | New Line Cinema |
| Release date(s) | October 11, 1996 |
| Running time | 120 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $65,000,000 |
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The Long Kiss Goodnight is a 1996 action thriller movie which stars Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, written by Shane Black and directed by Renny Harlin.
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[edit] Plot
Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a suburban mom and schoolteacher with a seemingly normal life in Honesdale, Pennsylvania. However, she had been found badly injured and amnesiatic several years previously, and has no memory of her past. When she's attacked by an escaped convict, Samantha dispatches her attacker with lethal self-defense skills she wasn't aware she possessed. She hires wisecracking private investigator Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson) to help her find the truth about her past. She contacts the mysterious Dr. Nathan Waldman (Brian Cox) who reveals that Samantha is really Charlie Baltimore, an assassin for the CIA who went missing eight years ago. When Samantha is captured and tortured by some of her old enemies, "Charlie", previously dormant, resurfaces. She discovers that her former boss at the CIA, Leland Perkins (Patrick Malahide) has allied with a psychotic ops specialist named Timothy (Craig Bierko) in a false flag plot to detonate a chemical bomb in downtown Niagara Falls, New York, frame Islamic terrorists for the crime and thus secure more funding. She and Mitch set out to thwart the plot and rescue her young daughter, Caitlin (Yvonne Zima) from the clutches of the terrorists.
[edit] Production
The screenplay was written by Shane Black, who was at the start of the 1990s one of the highest-paid scriptwriters in Hollywood. Parts of this movie were filmed at the Windermere House in Windermere, Ontario, Canada, in the Muskoka region; the house burned to the ground during filming. Parts of this movie were filmed in Hamilton, Ontario.[1]
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