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Actors: Geena Davis, Samuel L Jackson,Craig Bierko
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about The Long Kiss Goodnight |
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A woman has had amnesia for eight years. She suddenly starts to remember things from her past. She then realizes some people are after her. She teams up with a private investigator to try and find out what kind of person she was. It turns out that she was an assassin for the government. Soon, the government come after her. They kidnap her daughter in exchange for her. To add to that problem, a group of them are terrorists and are planning a big attack.
--Jack Bauer, Resident Scholar
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A woman is a small town housewife who has lost her memory of her past. She becomes aware of certain skills she possesses. After a car accident, she begins to recall flashes of her past. Her latest private detective (she's had many) has come up with a lead as to her identity. She joins him on a quest to find herself. While on this journey and staying at a hotel, she begins to realize what her special skills are for and how to use them. However, she is still wrestling with her dark side and her good side. She changes her long cury brown hair to a short bleached bob, and plasters on the makeup. She plans to meet with a man whom she was supposed to have known in her past. Although, once they meet she doesn't trust him. So, she leaves him stranded. Later, she agrees to meet with him, only to find that he's been killed and that someone else is there to meet her. These two men who have shown up in his place, torture her at a barn, convinced that she knows about a spy operation. Since she cannot recall these events yet, she just mocks them and spits at them and acts tough. As they torture her by tying her to a wheel which rotates to place her whole body underwater, (during which her white clothing becomes wet and partially see-through)she manages to free herself and obtain a gun and comes up shooting. The rest of the movie is kidnapping, chasing and killing. Towards the end of the movie, she must rescue her daughter and her newfound friend, the private investigator. Thrilling sequence of events, great movie for both men and women. I've watched it again and again.
--, Resident Scholar
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Geena Davis is a secret spy type chick that loses her memory. Samuel Jackson helps her find her identity. Bierko kidnaps Davis's kid and tries to kill thousands of people to get money from the government. Davis gets the kid, finds out who she is, and stops Bierko. Good times!
--MaryB, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of The Long Kiss Goodnight |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 40%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 30%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Spying & Terrorists
Yes
Cloak & Dagger Plotlets:
- main char doing spying/sabotage
Amnesia story
Yes
The terrorist enemy is...
- evil subgroup in govt
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- spy
Age:
- 20's-30's
Hair color?
- blonde
Hair style
- short/butch/lez (woman)
Body type
- skinny (woman)
Events of movie makes character more...
- tougher
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Sense of humor
- Mostly serious with occasional humor
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Male
Hair color
- brunette (Black)
Hair style
- (man) short/standard curly
Body type
- average build (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- Black
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard wavey
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Sense of humor
- Cynical sense of humor
How sensitive is this character?
- mean, arrogant
Setting
United States
Yes
The US:
- Northeast
Small town?
Yes
Small town people:
- nice, like Andy/Opie/Aunt Bee
Misc setting
- resort/hotel
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- moderately messy visuals of dead
Movie makes you feel...
- excited
How many deaths in film?
- dozens
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 2 (a little)
Kind of violence:
- mission to rescue
- mission to destroy something
- mission to protect something
- hand to hand
- guns
- knives
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
If Soundtrack VERY NOTICEABLE...
- Classic/oldies rock
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