The Long Kiss Goodnight

Theatrical - Wide 1996-10-11

Cast Geena Davis Samuel L. Jackson Yvonne Zima Craig Bierko Tom Amandes
Directed by Renny Harlin
Written by Shane Black

Box Office Gross: $89,456,761

Running Time: 121 minutes

Language: English

Production Company: The Steve Tisch Company, New Line Cinema, Forge

Genres: Action Crime Mystery Thriller

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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... See more 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.

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