The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)

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.

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An ordinary woman discovers that her life was not always ordinary in this action thriller. Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is a typical, well-mannered single mother working as a schoolteacher when she isn't looking after her children. Nothing on the surface would seem to be remarkable about Samantha's life, but every once in a while she has vague memories and unexplained impulses that don't add up with her current life experience; she has scars but no idea of how they got there, she suddenly displays a deadly talent for knife-throwing while chopping vegetables for dinner, and when she sees a deer, she suddenly attac...
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ks it with her bare hands. When an auto accident and a television news broadcast stirs some more uncomfortable memories, Samantha hires private investigator Mitch Hennessey (Samuel L. Jackson) to look into her past and see what he can find. Mitch learns that Samantha isn't really Samantha after all -- her name is Charley and she used to be a professional assassin with a secret government intelligence program. After a severe head injury, Charley developed a case of amnesia, and in time she developed her new personality as Samantha. However, her old boss has kept tabs on her, and now that it looks as if the old Charley is starting to come out again, he sends a pair of hit men after her to see to it that she doesn't remember anything else; soon Samantha and Mitch are on the run, trying to outdistance the killers as they get to the bottom of Charley's secret life. The Long Kiss Goodnight was directed by Renny Harlin, husband of leading lady Geena Davis; this was their second project together, following Cutthroat Island, released the previous year.
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Onderwijzeres Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) lijdt aan geheugenverlies en wordt gekweld door een mysterieus verleden.Met hulp van privédetective Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson) ontdekt ze haar ware identiteit,die van geheim agente Charly Baltimore. Het tweetal ontdekt een samenzwering tussen de geheime dienst en Baltimore's aartsvijand, wapenhandelaar Timothy. Caine kan hem alleen stoppen als ze haar dodelijke instincten uit haar geheugen weet te bevrijden. Tot die tijd lijkt ze machteloos en moet ze toezien hoe Timothy haar dochter ontvoert en op Kerstdag een onschuldige stad volledig dreigt te vernietigen.

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