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Nikita Details

1990 Certificate 18
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The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected with a substance and told it is .. Read more

Starring Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau
Director Luc Besson
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema

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The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected with a substance and told it is a lethal toxin. Instead of dying, however, the comes to in an all-white interrogation room, where French intelligence officer Bob (Tchéky Karyo), informs her that an alternate to execution exists: she can receive covert government training as an assassin. She accepts the bid, is rigorously trained, and later returns to society as a seemingly normal and gentle civilian, but falls in love with a drugstore employee while she's waiting for that first government assignment. The paradoxical concept of a young woman blossoming socially while carrying out cold-blooded murders was downplayed when La Femme Nikita was remade in America as the silly and disappointing Point of No Return, directed by John Badham with Bridget Fonda in the lead. A far less sociopathic TV-series version of La Femme Nikita surfaced on the USA cable network in early 1997.~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Starring Anne Parillaud, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Jean Reno, Jeanne Moreau, Tcheky Karyo
Director Luc Besson
Studio ELEVATION
Run time DVD: 1 hr 52 mins
Blu-ray: 1 hr 56 mins
Certificate Certificate 18
Collections 100 Feisty Females
Genres Action/Adventure, Thriller, World Cinema
Language DVD: French
Blu-ray: French
Subtitles DVD: English
Blu-ray: English
Released Production year: 1990

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      A beautiful junkie condemned to death for the murder of a policeman is given a chance to live - as a secret political assassin controlled by the government. Her lonely existence is warmed when she falls in love with a gentle, humorous man who knows nothing of her bizarre and mysterious life. Remade ...
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      The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish, psychotic, and drug-ridden Nikita (Anne Parillaud) fires her gun into a cop's face following the stick-up of a drug store, and is promptly imprisoned. She is thrown into a dank cell, then injected ...

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