Anne Bancroft, Bridget Fonda, Dermot Mulroney, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel ...( see more  see more... ) , Michael Rapaport

A gang of armed drug-addicts break into a chemist shop to try and steal drugs to fuel their habit. However, the police arrive too fast and all addicts but one are killed. She, Maggie, is sentenced to ...( read more  read more... )death by lethal injection for killing a police officer, but she wakes up after the execution to find that she has been spared in order to train her as a government assassin. After a dramatic transformation, she is allowed to leave and start a new life for herself, on the condition that she always be on call for the government. However, she begins to discover that there is more to life than she previously thought and soon begins to wish she could escape from her obligation. But the government aren't so easy to evade...

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R, 109 min.

Directed by: John Badham

Release Date: March 19, 1993

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DVD Release Date: August 19, 2003

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  • August 7, 2009
    made me laff, sum parts were kool doh.
  • December 13, 2008
    Go watch Le Femme Nikita instead.
  • July 11, 2008
    American version of La Femme Nikita. It has been a while since I've seen the Nikita series, so I can't do a lot of comparing. The story is somewhat bland. Druggy rehabilitated as government killer does her job. However she falls in love and wants out of her assassin role.
  • March 8, 2008
    even though its regarded as a poor remake of the original french film,this is still a good action film.fonda is supremely sexy as nina..the woman turned around to an assassin.its pretty violent and there's plenty of gun play and steamy scenes.
    keitel is great as the cold cleaner...( read more)....his scene is very unnerving and chilling really..no emotions.
    bancroft is perfect as the classy elegant female who must teach nina to become a lady and deadly at the same time and byrne is good as her boss.
    it is kinda dated now of course but it still works well.
  • February 3, 2008
    Pending Review...

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  • November 28, 2009
    greay movie i like it
  • August 24, 2009
    Oh yah this movie is way cool.
  • August 7, 2009
    liked this one the french version is a littlew too dry for me
  • August 4, 2009
    Not good as the original one
  • July 25, 2009
    Imposible no establecer puntos de comparacion con la original

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