The Long Kiss Goodnight
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The 1996 thriller The Long Kiss Goodnight stars Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson. 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. The film is a good example of late-90s Hollywood action fare, combining bone-crunching violence with a knowing irony and acid wit.
Plot
Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a suburban mom and schoolteacher with a seemingly normal life. However, she was found badly injured and amnesiac several years ago, 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 Charly Baltimore, an assassin for the CIA who went missing eight years ago. When Samantha is captured and tortured by some of her old enemies, "Charly", previously dormant, resurfaces. She discovers that her former boss at the CIA, Leland Perkins (Patrick Malahide) has allied with a terrorist named Timothy (Craig Bierko) in a plot to detonate a chemical bomb, frame an Arab 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.
Trivia
- Rapper Charli Baltimore adopted her stage-name from name of the heroine of this film.
- The screenplay was written by Shane Black, who was at the start of the 1990s one the highest-paid scriptwriters in Hollywood. His screenplay for the Bruce Willis actioner The Last Boy Scout was bought by Warner Bros. for an estimated $1.25 million in 1990.