Point of No Return (1993)

A gang of armed drug-addicts break into a chemist shop to try and steal drugs to fuel their habit. However, the police arrive too fast and all addicts but one are killed. She, Maggie, is sentenced to death by lethal injection for killing a police officer, but she wakes up after the execution to find that she has been spared in order to train her as a government assassin. After a dramatic transformation, she is allowed to leave and start a new life for herself, on the condition that she always be on call for the government. However, she begins to discover that there is more to life than she previously thought and soon begins to wish she could escape from her obligation. But the government aren't so easy to evade…


Also Known As: The Assassin, La Femme Nikita, Nikita or The Specialist

Tagline: The Government gave her a choice. Death. Or life as an assassin. Now, there's no turning back.

Directed by: John Badham

Starring: Bridget Fonda, Gabriel Byrne, Harvey Keitel and Dermot Mulroney