Point of No Return, known as The Assassin in some markets, is a 1993 film directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda. It is a remake of Luc Besson's 1990 film Nikita.
Maggie Hayward (Bridget Fonda) is a drug addict found guilty of murdering a police officer during the burglary of a drugstore in Washington, D.C., when the burglary attempt goes sour.
Maggie is sentenced to be executed after several violent outbursts before and during her tr...
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Point of No Return, known as The Assassin in some markets, is a 1993 film directed by John Badham and starring Bridget Fonda. It is a remake of Luc Besson's 1990 film Nikita.
Maggie Hayward (Bridget Fonda) is a drug addict found guilty of murdering a police officer during the burglary of a drugstore in Washington, D.C., when the burglary attempt goes sour.
Maggie is sentenced to be executed after several violent outbursts before and during her trial. She is presumed to have died by lethal injection. However, she later wakes up in a holding cell. A man named Bob (Gabriel Byrne) enters and informs her that for all intents and purposes, the girl once known as Maggie Hayward is dead, producing for her photos of her own funeral and burial—in Plot 48, Row 12, of a local cemetery.
Bob informs Maggie that he works for a top secret government agency that wishes to recruit her as an operative, having seen her demonstrate her fighting skills in the courtroom, the compound where she is being held...
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