19971h 55mDir. Gary Fleder

Kiss the Girls

Name: Kiss the Girls
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Mystery
Released: 1997-09-29
Duration: 1 h 55 min
Rating: 3.5
Cast: Morgan Freeman, Ashley Judd, Cary Elwes, Alex McArthur, Tony Goldwyn

“Smart girls. Pretty girls. Missing girls.”

ThrillerCrimeMystery

3.5 / 5.0

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1st Half: 3.5 ★vs2nd Half: 3.5 ★

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Forensic psychologist and detective Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail leads to Los Angeles, where the duo discovers that the psychopath may not be working alone.

Starring:Morgan Freeman,Ashley Judd,Cary Elwes,Alex McArthur,Tony Goldwyn

Featured Cast

(12 actors)

Morgan Freeman

Det. Alex Cross

Ashley Judd

Dr. Kate McTiernan

Cary Elwes

Det. Nick Ruskin

Alex McArthur

Det. Davey Sikes

Tony Goldwyn

Dr. Will Rudolph

Jay O. Sanders

FBI Agent Kyle Craig

Bill Nunn

Det. John Sampson, LAPD

Brian Cox

Chief Hatfield, Durham PD

Richard T. Jones

Seth Samuel

Roma Maffia

Dr. Ruocco

Jeremy Piven

Det. Henry Castillo, LAPD

Gina Ravera

Naomi Cross

Key Production Crew

Director

Gary Fleder

Screenplay & Writers

David Klass, James Patterson

Cinematography

Aaron Schneider

Original Score

Mark Isham

Producers

David Brown, Joe Wizan

Film Details

Budget$27,000,000

Box Office Revenue$60,527,873

Original Languageen

Production Studios

Paramount PicturesRysher EntertainmentDavid Brown Productions

Keywords & Themes

#based on novel or book#escape#kidnapping#detective#fbi#investigation#north carolina#psychologist#serial killer#psychological thriller

Community Reviews & Logs

Aniket Shukla @aniket11

Oct 13, 2026

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3.5

Alright, so let’s talk about Kiss the Girls. You’ve got Morgan Freeman – the guy whose voice alone could soothe an angry grizzly bear – taking on the role of Alex Cross, a detective-psychologist out to catch a creepy ser...

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