Kiss the Girls (1997 film)
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| Directed by | Gary Fleder |
| Produced by |
David Brown Joe Wizan |
| Screenplay by | David Klass |
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Kiss the Girls by James Patterson |
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| Music by | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography | Aaron Schneider |
| Edited by | Armen Minasian Harvey Rosenstock William Steinkamp |
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| Distributed by | Paramount Pictures |
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117 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Budget | $27 million |
| Box office | $60.5 million |
Kiss the Girls is a 1997 American neo noir psychological thriller film directed by Gary Fleder and starring Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, and Cary Elwes. The screenplay by David Klass is based on the best-selling novel Kiss the Girls by James Patterson. A sequel titled Along Came a Spider was released in 2001.
Washington, D.C. detective and forensic psychologist Alex Cross (Morgan Freeman) heads to Durham, North Carolina when his niece Naomi (Gina Ravera), a college student, is reported missing. He learns from the local police, including Detective Nick Ruskin (Cary Elwes), that Naomi is the latest in a series of young women who have vanished. Soon after his arrival, one of the missing women is found dead, bound to a tree in a desolate forest, and shortly after that, intern Kate McTiernan (Ashley Judd) is kidnapped from her home.
When she awakens from a drugged state, Kate discovers that she is being held captive by a masked man calling himself Casanova, and she is one of several prisoners trapped in his lair. She manages to escape and is severely injured when she jumps from a cliff and into a river to escape from his clutches. After she recuperates, she joins forces with Cross to track down her sadomasochist captor, who Cross concludes is a collector, not a killer, unless his victims fail to follow his rules. This means there is time to rescue the other imprisoned women, just as long as they remain subservient.
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