THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT (1996)

MORGAN'S RATING

After eight years of amnesia, school teacher Samantha Cain learns she was once a lethal assassin for the CIA... and now her former employers want her dead. Pursued by a hi-tech army of corrupt government renegades, Samantha teams up with a wise-cracking detective named Mitch Henessey, who helps her uncover her past before it buries them both. Featuring blistering special effects and eye-popping stunts, The Long Kiss Goodnight is one fun, mind-blowing thrill ride!

Geena Davis (Samantha Caine/ Charlene Elizabeth Baltimore), Samuel L. Jackson (Mitch Henessey), Yvonne Zima (Caitlin Caine), Craig Bierko (Timothy), Tom Amandes (Hal), Brian Cox (Nathan), Patrick Malahide (Perkins), David Morse (Luke/Daedalus), Joseph McKenna (One-Eyed Jack), Melina Kanakaredes (Trin), Dan Warry- Smith (Raymond), Rex Linn (Man in Bed), Alan North (Earl), Glady's O'Connor (Alice), G.D. Spadlin (President), Larry King (himself).

EIGHT YEARS AGO SHE LOST HER MEMORY. NOW, A DETECTIVE MUST HELP HER REMEMBER THE PAST BEFORE IT BURIES THEM BOTH. WHAT'S FORGOTTEN IS NOT ALWAYS GONE.

PRODUCTION INFORMATION

DIRECTOR: Renny Harlin (Deep Blue Sea).

WRITER: Shane Black.

PRODUCERS: Stephanie Austin, Shane Black, Genna Davis (uncredited) and Renny Harlin.

CO-PRODUCER: Carla Fry.

EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS: Richard Saperstein, Michael DeLuca and Steve Tisch.

ORIGINAL MUSIC: Alan Silvestri.

DISTRIBUTOR: New Line Cinema

QUOTES

Samantha: What happened back there? Mitch: I saved your ass. It was great!

Mitch: The last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel.

[Holding a knife to the neck of a woman's child] Timothy: You're about to have 2.4 children.

[Samantha notices the gun in Mitch's pocket] Samantha: It makes a bulge, people can see! Mitch: Do ya want me to stick it in my pants and shoot my damn dick off? Samantha: Now you're a sharpshooter?

Mitch: So, you cold? Charly: Yeah, freezing. Mitch: Well turn on the heat. It doesn't work, but it makes a very annoying noise that distracts from the cold.

FACTS

RELEASE DATE: October 11th, 1996 (USA)

BOX OFFICE OPENING: $9.0 million (USA)

Charley: I'm leaving the country, Mitch. I need a fake passport and I need money, losts of it. Mitch: Well why didn't you say so? Hold on a minute while I pull that outta my ass.

BOX OFFICE RESULT: $33.3 million (USA)

BUDGET: $65 million (USA)

- In the first draft of the screenplay, Mitch dies of his wounds. - The song "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" by Dean Martin plays in Samatha's car radio. It also featured at the end of Die Hard 2, also directed by Renny Harlin. - The ice skating scene was scripted to end with Samantha performing a double-axel flip and simult- aneously firing over her upside-down head. After two ariel-rig configurations (in sub-zero conditions) and several attempts at green-screening failed to hold any convincing fluency to the action, it was dropped from the final cut of the film. - At the end of the movie, Geena Davis is driving a convertible and wearing a scarf and sunglasses. This is how she ends Thelma and Louise.

Charly: You couldn't hit a lake if you were standing on the bottom.

Charly: Life is pain. Get used to it.

Hal: I don't smoke, I don't drink and I don't swear. Oh shit! I do smoke and drink!

Mitch: You know, back when we first met, you were all like "Oh phooey, I burned the darn muffins." Now, you go into a bar and ten minutes later sailors come runnin' out. What up with that?

Mitch: I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.

Samantha: What are you, a Mormon? Mitch: Yes, I'm a Mormon. That's why I just smoked a packet of Newports and drank three vodka tonics.

Nathan: Alice, please? Your dog, Alice-- it and my appetite are mutually exclusive. Alice: Well, what's wrong with the dog? Nathan: Simple. He's been licking his asshole for the last three straight hours. I submit to you that there is nothing there worth more than an hour's attention and I should think that whatever he is attempting to dislodge, is either gone for good...or there to stay.

CRITICAL COMMENTS

"If you find a kitchen sink, it's the one screenwriter Shane Black forgot to throw into this over-the-top action yarn, which starts out seriously, then changes tone...a roller-coaster ride, full of large-scale stunts and humor..." -- Leonard Maltin

Charly: Were you always this stupid, or did you take lessons? Mitch: [angry] I took lessons.

"Supersexy and action-charged." -- Peter Travers, Rolling Stone

"Action, action and more action! What a ride." -- Jim Ferguson, Prevue Channel

Mitch: Everyone knows, when you make an assumption, you make an ass out of u and mption.

"...the most spectacular action scenes you've ever seen!" -- Jeannine Wolf, Jeannine Wolf's Hollywood

Mitch: I'm always frank and earnest with women. Uh, in New York I'm Frank, and in Chicago I'm Ernest.