The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

Release date: 1996-10-11
Country: USA
Language: English
Director: Renny Harlin
Production Co: Forge, New Line Cinema, The Steve Tisch Company
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Rating: 6.8/10
Length: 2h 1min

Storyline

Samantha Caine, suburban homemaker, is the ideal mom to her 8 year old daughter Caitlin. She lives in Honesdale, PA, has a job teaching school and makes the best Rice Krispie treats in town. But when she receives a bump on her head, she begins to remember small parts of her previous life as a lethal, top-secret agent. Her old chums in the Chapter are now out to kill her so she enlists the help of a cheap detective named Mitch. As Samantha remembers more and more of her previous life, she becomes deadlier and more resourceful. Both Mitch and Charly proceed to do the killing thing, the bleeding thing and the shooting thing.

Plot Keywords

vomiting, niagara falls, talking to oneself in a mirror, female assassin, interrupted sex, violence against a woman, shot in the head, chopping wood, kneed in the groin, one eyed man, self loathing, attempted drowning, blood, cult film, cigarette smoking, evil man, hidden gun, knife, person on fire, terrorist plot

Short Review

Frankly, if I had to see either Harlin-Davis movie again, I'd opt for the klutzy unpleasantness of Cutthroat Island over the efficient if equally stupid unpleasantness of this 1996 release.