The Long Kiss Goodnight

The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) is an action thriller directed by Renny Harlin — watch online on iFILM. Shane Black wrote the script for a then-record four million dollars, and the result is one of the decade's most relentlessly fun spy films.

Samantha Caine teaches school, raises her daughter, and remembers nothing before she washed up on a beach eight years ago. Then a car crash kicks something loose. Her hands start doing things she never learned — slicing, shooting, surviving. The cut-rate private eye she hired, Mitch Hennessy (Samuel L. Jackson), expected a routine background check and instead got shot at across half of North America. Geena Davis plays Samantha, and the chemistry between the two leads carries the film through every set piece.

Long before action heroines became common in Hollywood, this film put a woman at the centre of a full-throttle spy thriller and never once made it feel like a point to prove. Stream The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) online on iFILM.