Jackson in "The Long Kiss Goodnight" 1996 (Hulton Archive/Getty Images) He's a little shabby and misogynistic, but also a loyal, determined friend, and casually hilarious without having to work at it. Jackson probably wouldn't disagree with that, since Mitch, a former cop turned low-rent private investigator, exists firmly within Jackson's wheelhouse of bad muthaf*****s. To that his character Mitch Hennessey who likely reply, "No s**t." Mitch receives most of the love expressed for this movie, but Geena Davis' performance is the main course in its action chow-down. In a 2018 episode of GQ's video series "Actually Me" he declared without prompting that "The Long Kiss Goodnight" is his favorite movie to watch that he also stars in. Jackson is eternally popular and remains Hollywood's most bankable actors, but this wasn't a favor as much as it was a flex. Jackson, started bumping it on social media on the rare occasions that it would show up as a rerun. Sometime after that, a miracle manifested. "Long Kiss Goodnight" fared better at the box office, but still left less of an impression than its current cult classic status would have you believe.Charly Baltimore was an unexpected direction for an Academy Award-winning performer best known for her blazing turn in "Thelma & Louise." Saddled with an expensive international production, Harlin had begged not to make it and it cast a lasting pall over his wife's career prospects. But "Cutthroat Island" was more than a flop. With that string of already-beloved classics behind her, she had a sturdy foundation for future work, something that could withstand a flop. ![]() As Davis explained in 2016, "everyone thought tons of female buddy pictures and road movies would somehow materialize and they didn't." She had hoped they would become more common. But with "Thelma and Louise" and "A League of Their Own," the movies themselves became oriented around the female experience, made more special by their rarity. Even as a love interest in "The Fly" or the Bill Murray-directed "Quick Change," she brought weight, nuance, and humor to the parts. ![]() While Davis hadn't consciously been seeking out complex female roles throughout the '80s and '90s, it's undeniable that those are what she got. After "Long Kiss Goodnight," Davis' only film role in her 40s was in "Stuart Little" as (you guessed it) the mom. In your 30s, you can still be an action star, a romantic lead, a woman on the run (or all three, as in Davis' Oscar-nominated turn "Thelma and Louise"), but afterwards, you can only be a mom. It's classic sexism the kind that casts women as objects and refuses to acknowledge their total humanity. Harlin cast her in his 1995 swashbuckler flop "Cutthroat Island" and as the suburban mom whose forgotten assassin past reemerges in 1996's "The Long Kiss Goodnight."ĭavis would eventually come to note the unspoken Hollywood rule: once an actress hits 40, they're no longer offered the same variety of roles. With the assistance of then-husband Renny Harlin, Finnish action maestro, she pursued lead roles in action movies. Comedies like "Tootsie" led to more three-dimensional roles in movies like "The Fly," which led to an Oscar win for 1988's "The Accidental Tourist" - all in less than a decade.
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