The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
What's forgotten is not always gone.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic
IMDb6.8/10· 92K votes
Rotten Tomatoes67%
Metacritic43%
TMDb6.587/10· 1K votesWith 67% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 6.8/10 on IMDb and 43/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.
About The Long Kiss Goodnight
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.
Cast of The Long Kiss Goodnight
Geena Davis
as Samantha Caine / Charly Baltimore
Samuel L. Jackson
as Mitch Henessey
Patrick Malahide
as Leland Perkins
Craig Bierko
as Timothy
Brian Cox
as Dr. Nathan Waldman
Sharon Washington
as Fran Henessey
David Morse
as Luke / Daedalus
G.D. Spradlin
as President
Tom Amandes
as Hal
Yvonne Zima
as Caitlin Caine
Melina Kanakaredes
as Trin
Alan North
as Earl
The Long Kiss Goodnight facts
- Budget
- $65M
- Box office
- $89.5M
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Audience opinions
What the audience liked
- •Action hero brings physicality to fights
- •Amnesia mystery drives character investigation
- •Assassination sequences feel intense and committed
What the audience disliked
- •Meta commentary undercuts dramatic tension
- •Character development sometimes takes backseat
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