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MPAA Rating: R Content Advisory: Graphic Violence, Not For Children, Profanity Movie Release: 1990 DVD Release: 10/01/1997 Format: DVD - Enhanced Wide Screen Letterbox for 16x9 TV Audio Tracks: English, French Subtitles: English SwapaDVD Credits: 1 Number of Discs: 1 Run Time: 1 hrs 57 mins Studio: Trimark Home Video Members Wishing: 12 Genres: Thriller, Action Thriller See Also: La Femme Nikita, La Femme Nikita [Special Edition], La Femme Nikita [Widescreen]

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

Anne Parillaud - Nikita
Jean-Hugues Anglade - Marco
Tchéky Karyo - Bob
Jeanne Moreau - Amande
Jean Reno - Victor the Cleaner

The serpentine plotline of Luc Besson's La Femme Nikita begins its 117-minute slither when punkish Nikita (Anne Parillaud) kills a cop and is sentenced to death. On the brink of execution, she is "saved" by French intelligence officer Bob (Tchéky Karyo). With the government's blessing, Bob lovingly coaches Nikita in the proper social graces -- and also tutors her in the subtle art of political assassination. 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 Point of No Return, 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