This vehicle for Geena Davis remains one of the loudest, sassiest and most entertaining action blockbusters of the 1990s. Directed by then-husband Renny Harlin, it's wonderfully over the top in virtually every respect, from Lethal Weapon scriptwriter Shane Black's barmy story and even crazier characters to the nonstop, reality defying action set pieces. Davis stars as a small-town housewife suffering from amnesia who discovers that she was once a ruthless assassin working for a shadowy government agency. Samuel L Jackson plays her reluctant and mainly incompetent sidekick, and there are also ripe performances from Patrick Malahide, Brian Cox and the cheerfully villainous Craig Bierko.

Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.