Kill Me Again

Kill Me Again is a 1989 American neo-noir thriller film directed by John Dahl, and starring Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley and Michael Madsen. Plot Violent criminal Vince (Michael Madsen) and his girlfriend and partner in crime Fay (Joanne Whalley-Kilmer) rob a pair of Las Vegas mobsters of a briefcase containing $850,000, killing one of them in the process. During their getaway the couple fight over what to do with the money and Fay loses. Deciding she has had enough of his controlling ways, Fay knocks Vince out and drives away with the money. Jack Andrews (Val Kilmer) is a widowed private investigator operating out of Reno. Guilt-ridden over his failure to save his wife from the lake car crash that killed her, he has accrued $10,000 in gambling debts and loan sharks are circling. Fay turns up at his office posing as a battered wife on the run from her abusive husband and offers him ten grand to fake her death so she can start a new life. Although he doubts Fay’s story, Jack feels sorry for her and agrees to help. Jack and Fay stage her death at a motel, though unbeknownst to Jack a matchbook with his name written in it is left in the room. Jack falls for Fay and agrees to meet her later at her motel, but after ditching the evidence-filled car in a lake he returns to find she has fled to Las Vegas, along with the remaining half of the money she owes him.