Government agents come after an amnesiac woman, who gradually remembers her past.Government agents come after an amnesiac woman, who gradually remembers her past.Government agents come after an amnesiac woman, who gradually remembers her past.
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- 3 nominations total
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- TriviaOn the The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon (2014) on January 14, 2019, Samuel L. Jackson listed Mitch as his favorite role.
- GoofsThe grenade in the station corridor is a fragmentation type. Fragmentation grenades do not produce huge rolling fireballs; and if they did, the fireball would spread much too rapidly to run ahead of.
- Quotes
Mitch Henessey: What I'm saying is, back when we first met, you were all like "Oh phooey, I burned the darn muffins." Now, you go into a bar, ten minutes later, sailors come runnin' out. What up with that?
- Alternate versionsFrench DVD contains some deleted scenes.
- ConnectionsEdited into The Long Kiss Goodnight: Deleted Scenes (2000)
- SoundtracksSanta Claus is Back in Town
Written by Jerry Leiber and Mike Stoller
Performed by Elvis Presley
Courtesy of The RCA Records Label of BMG Entertainment
Featured review
Not a box office success; no-one really knows why. It may have failed simply because of its title. It looks as though you need a two-word tough-guy title to attract a sufficient proportion of the idiot crowd - "Die Hard", "Lethal Weapon", "Hard Weapon", "Die Lethal", etc. - talking about "the long kiss goodnight" will get you nowhere. But for once Renny Harlin has made a GOOD action movie. A large part of the reason for this lies in the fact that the central character, Samantha, earns our affection and interest early on. As she becomes Charly again, we're torn: we certainly want Charly to thwart the bad guys, and all that; but we don't want her to lose touch with Samantha in order to do so - even though we like Charly, too. Geena Davis bestows all of her considerable charm on both halves of the central character. Samuel L. Jackson plays second fiddle for a change. It turns out he's good at it. That was a compliment.
Intelligent, far superior to anything in the "Die Hard" series - if I were more cynical I'd add, "it's not surprising that it didn't do well", but I don't really feel that way; it IS surprising that it didn't do well.
Intelligent, far superior to anything in the "Die Hard" series - if I were more cynical I'd add, "it's not surprising that it didn't do well", but I don't really feel that way; it IS surprising that it didn't do well.
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Box office
- Budget
- $65,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $33,447,612
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $9,065,363
- Oct 13, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $89,456,761
- Runtime2 hours 1 minute
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 2.39 : 1
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