Point of No Return (1993) on Netflix
Maggie Hayward, an addict jailed for killing a police officer during a robbery, faces lethal injection. An agent called Bob fakes her death to train her as an assassin.
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Plot summary
In Washington, D.C., armed addicts raid a drugstore for drugs, and the police arrive before they finish. The shootout leaves the store owner, several officers, and every robber but Maggie Hayward dead. She is sentenced to die by lethal injection. She wakes afterward to find the execution staged, and an agent named Bob tells her she must work for his clandestine outfit instead. She agrees and undergoes intensive training in martial arts, firearms, etiquette, and computers. Amanda, a senior operative, refines her into an elegant woman.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Point of No Return (1993)
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- Before Bridget Fonda landed the lead, actresses including Winona Ryder, Madonna, Demi Moore, Juliette Lewis, and Robin Wright campaigned for the part, and Julia Roberts is said to have turned down the role twice.
- Together with the earlier re-release of "My Baby Just Cares for Me" in 1982, the film helped bring Nina Simone back into the public limelight and made her better known with a younger audience.
- Bridget Fonda was hesitant to accept the lead role, not sold on doing a remake of such a recent film, but was eventually convinced by John Badham and by Barbet Schroeder, who had directed her in Single White Female.
- The movie was known under the working title La Femme Nikita during development, and the title The Specialist was considered before Point of No Return was settled on.
- The film proved very popular in the home video market, becoming the top video rental in the United States in November 1993.
