Stricken with amnesia eight years earlier, a small-town schoolteacher and mother hires a private eye to help her uncover her past. When it's discovered she's a former CIA operative--and that her "accident" was actually an assassination attempt--she and the detective are thrown into an automatic weapons-fueled, life-and-death struggle with the bad guys.
Nice, quiet Samantha lives in a pleasant town, with her beautiful daughter... and amnesia. After she's brutally attacked, Sam makes a stab at remembering her mysterious past. Little by little, she recalls that she was once Charly, a bad-to-the-bone, highly-trained government assassin, who knew too much about her employer's dirty dealings. Her former colleagues thought was dead -- until now. Soon, they're out to do everything they can to kill her.
All the while, benign Samantha is slowing transforming into the ruthless Charly. And that's good, because she will need ALL of her killer instincts in order to survive...
Released theatrically in the USA October 11, 1996.
A Forge production.
Color by CFI; prints by DeLuxe; shot in widescreen.
DVD Features:
Region 1
Snap Case
Full Frame - 1.33
Letterbox - 2.35
Widescreen - 2.35
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Dolby Digital Stereo - French
Additional Release Material:
Trailers: Theatrical Trailer
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus
Text/Photo Galleries:
Background Information on the Stars
Director of Photography
Guillermo Navarro: Director Of Photography/"Cisco Kid"
Production Designer
Howard Cummings: Production Designer, THE USUAL SUSPECTS (1995)
Costume Designer
Michael Kaplan: Costume Designer, BLADE RUNNER (1982)
Review 1:
"...THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT is a tour de force of technical brilliance, with flashes of humor and a wild spirit of adventure..."
Source: Los Angeles Times
p.F2 10/11/1996
Review 2:
"...Supersexy and action-charged....Davis is a dazzler..."
Source: Rolling Stone
p.76 10/31/1996
Review 3:
"...A superbly entertaining action movie....Spectacular effects, stunts and editing..."
Source: Sight and Sound
p.52-3 12/01/1996
Review 4:
"...[A] fantastical actioner about the potential for good and evil within the human character, THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT has a jokey good time with its outlandish pyrotechnics and offbeat character interplay....Muscular and visceral..."
Source: Variety
10/07/1996
Review 5:
"...Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson prove they're game in this movie, as they trade quips in the breaks between special effects sequences. And he action is what we expect: sensational, violent and loud..."
Source: Chicago Sun-Times
p.38 10/11/1996