The Long Kiss Goodnight

Infobox_Film
name = The Long Kiss Goodnight


caption = Theatrical poster
director = Renny Harlin
writer = Shane Black
starring = Geena Davis
Samuel L. Jackson
Patrick Malahide
Craig Bierko
Brian Cox
With David Morse
And G.D. Spradlin
Tom Amandes
Yvonne Zima
producer = Stephanie Austin
Shane Black
Renny Harlin
music = Alan Silvestri
cinematography = Guillermo Navarro
editing = William Goldenberg
distributor = New Line Cinema
released = October 11, 1996
runtime = 120 minutes
country = United States
language = English
awards =
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budget = $65,000,000
amg_id = 1:136811
imdb_id = 0116908

"The Long Kiss Goodnight" is a 1996 action thriller film starring Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson, written by Shane Black and directed by Renny Harlin.

Plot

Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a suburban mother 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 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 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.

Production

The screenplay was written by Shane Black, who was at the start of the 1990s one of the highest-paid scriptwriters in Hollywood.

This movie was shot throughout Ontario, Canada. Many notable and well known spots can be picked out throughout. Filming took place in Toronto, Hamilton, Collingwood, Wasaga Beach, Unionville and at Windermere House in Muskoka.

Some scenes were shot in parts of the US, however, Ontario, Canada was used for the majority of the filming because of the snowy winters.

Cast

*Geena Davis — Samantha Caine/Charlene Elizabeth "Charly" Baltimore
*Samuel L. Jackson — Mitch Henessey
*Yvonne Zima — Caitlin Caine
*Craig Bierko — Timothy
*Tom Amandes — Hal
*Brian Cox — Dr. Nathan Waldman
*Patrick Malahide — Leland Perkins
*David Morse — Luke/Daedalus
*G.D. Spradlin — President

References

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*imdb title|id=0116908|title=The Long Kiss Goodnight