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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) More at IMDbPro »

• In the first draft of the screenplay, Mitch dies of his wounds.
  
  
• The song "Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow" by 'Vaughn Monroe (I)' plays in Samantha's car radio. It also featured at the end of Die Hard 2 (1990) also directed by Renny Harlin.
  
  
• The ice skating scene was scripted to end with Samantha performing a double-axel flip and simultaneously firing over her upside-down head. After two aerial-rig configurations (in sub-zero conditions) and several attempts at green-screening failed to hold any convincing fluency to the action, it was dropped from the final cut of the film
  
  
• The movie playing on the TV at the hotel was The Long Goodbye (1973).
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Renny Harlin] [finland] Both Mitch and Charly drink Finlandia Vodka.
  
  
• One of the movie's original locations was a historic, grand hotel in Muskoka, Ontario, Canada - the 100-year-old Windermere House. During filming, however, the hotel caught fire and burned to the ground. The heat from the film lights were initially blamed for causing the blaze, but it was never proven that the lights started the fire.
  
  
• The resort Windemere House in the Muskoka region of Ontario, Canada burned down while filming scenes there. Production company had to rework the scenes in Collingwood, Ontario. Windemere House has since been rebuilt.
  
  
• Shane Black became the first writer to sell a script for $3 million.
  
  
• Director Trademark: [Renny Harlin] [finland] A phone booth has writing on the side that says Hell Sinki, as in Helsinki, Finland.
  
  
• Geena Davis and then-husband director Renny Harlin checked how long she could hold her breath in their bathtub to prepare for the "water torture" scene.
  
  
• Renny Harlin credits Craig Bierko with suggesting the song "She's Not There" by Santana.
  
  
• In the first draft of the script, the name "Sam Caine" was not an alias used by Charly Baltimore (as it is in the finished film) but was instead a creation of her mind, as an anagram of "amnesiac".
  
  
• During an escape attempt, Geena Davis lights gas with a matchbook from Tops. Tops is a grocery store chain based in Buffalo, but has stores in Buffalo, Rochester, NY, and into PA.
  
  
• Average Shot Length = ~2.9 seconds. Median Shot Length = ~3 seconds.
  
  
• Female rapper and Murder Inc. recording artist Tiffany Lane, uses the name "Charli Baltimore" (sic) as her moniker. Lane was a lover of famous New York rapper The Notorious B.I.G who had recorded a song called "Long Kiss Goodnight" for his 1997 album "Life After Death".
  
  
• "RFK 575" is the license plate used in the film for the dead terrorist's car. It's also the license plate used by Derek Zoolander's roommate in Zoolander (2001) and in a car in Final Destination (2000).
  
  
• In both Shane Black scripts for The Last Boy Scout (1991) and The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996), the hero mentions sarcastically that someone is so funny he's going to wet himself.
  
  

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