ART OF ACTION: The Long Kiss Goodnight (18)

Eight years ago, small-town schoolteacher and single mother Samantha Caine emerged from a river pregnant with no knowledge of her past. Her pleasant life is beginning to be disturbed by flashes of violent memories, so she enlists help from detective Mitch to investigate her mysterious past. However, as she becomes more conscious, she rediscovers her former self as an elite government assassin and the plotting of rogue agents, putting her daughter at risk. With a script by Shane Black and directed by her then-husband Renny Harlin, Geena Davis is an iconic maternal figure and a feminist action hero in this smart and sharp-witted action-thriller.

+ Discussion with Dan Thomas and stuntwoman Rebecca Wilson.