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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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- 24 Feb 2010
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- 23 Jun 2006
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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 ...