thriller film starring Geena Davis
and Samuel L. Jackson
, written by Shane Black
and directed by Renny Harlin
.
Samantha Caine (Geena Davis
) is a mother and schoolteacher with a seemingly normal life in the small town of Honesdale, Pennsylvania
. Eight years previously, she was found pregnant and badly injured, suffering complete amnesia after being found washed up on a beach in New Jersey. Since that time, she has hired a series of private investigators to try to uncover her past with no success, the latest (and one of the few she can afford) being wisecracking, ethically challenged private investigator Mitch Henessey (Samuel L. Jackson
).
[to a drunken friend] Earl, do me a favor? … Every few words, have some bubbles come out of your mouth and say "hic".
[to her 7-year-old daughter] Stop being a little baby and get up. Life is pain. Get used to it!
[to Timothy] It ain't over. You're going to die screaming... and I'm going to watch. Am I telling the truth?
[later, watching Timothy plummet to his death] Die screaming, motherfucker!
Chefs do that.
You couldn't hit a lake if you were standing on the bottom of it.
I never did one thing right in my life, you know that? Not one. That takes skill.
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?
I ain't handsome, I ain't rich, and the last time I got blown, candy bars cost a nickel.
Naw, I sock 'em in the mouth and yell, "Pop goes the weasel." Who the fuck are you?