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| Directed by | Randall Fontana |
| Written by | Randall Fontana |
| Starring | Gabrielle Fitzpatrick Phillip Rhys Robert Culp |
| Music by | Michael Wandmacher |
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| Country | United States |
Farewell, My Love is a 2001 action film by Randall Fontana starring Gabrielle Fitzpatrick, Phillip Rhys, and Robert Culp. [1]
Fitzpatrick plays a kind avenging angel who takes revenge on a mob that killed her family. Robert Culp, Brion James, Phillip Rhys, and Mark Sheppard co-star in this action drama that contains a measure of violence and sex that would appeal to a certain audience. [2]
A mysterious assassin named Brigit (Fitzpatrick) starts killing apparently unrelated Russian criminals. She befriends an old arm dealer Renault (James) who trains her and helps her. Brigit reveals that four of them; George (Mitchell), Natalya (Wynter), Sergei (Lauter) and Peter (Foster) invaded her home when she was a teen, killed her father by shooting him, gang-raped and then kill her mother and molested and wounded her leaving her for dead. However she survived and swore revenge. Peter, the last of the original four to still be alive, manages to ambush her and kills Renault. She joins forces with Renault's son Luc and after some double crossing both her and Luc avenge their parents killing Peter.
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