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Title: Paycheck
Year: 2003
Runtime: 119 minutes
Votes: 93216
Rating: 6.3/10
Language: English
Country: USA, Canada
All Genres: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Plot Outline: What seemed
like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of dollars,
leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why he's being
chased.
Tagline: Remember the future.
Director: John Woo
Writing By: Philip K. Dick,Dean Georgaris,
Produced By: Arthur Anderson,Terence Chang,John Davis,Michael Hackett,Stratton Leopold,Caroline Macaulay,David Solomon,John Woo,
Music: John Powell
Plot:
Michael Jennings is a reverse engineer and what he does is technical
jobs for certain companies and as soon as he is done, his memory of the
work he has done is wiped out. Now the longest he has been contracted is
2 months. But now billionaire, James Rethrick offers him a job that
would last 2 years, maybe 3, and he promises that he will probably earn 8
figures. Michael agrees. Before beginning he turns in all of his
personal effects. And when the job is done, his memory is erased and he
learns he made over 90 million dollars over the three years. When he
goes to claim it and his personal effects, he discovers that prior to
the erasure of his memory he waived his rights to the money he earned
and that the items that were given to him were not the ones he gave when
he began. Later he is arrested by the FBI who say that he committed
some act of treason and murder. It's while he is in custody that he
escapes using some the items that he was given. He later meets with a
friend who gives him some information that helps him understand what is
going on. And at the same time Rethrick for some reason wants him so he
is being pursued by Rethrick's people.
- Written by
rcs0411@yahoo.com
Jennings is the best reverse-engineer in the business. He is hired by
clients to take apart other companies technologies and find out how they
work. He is hired to do a special job, against the advice of some of
his associates. When the job is completed, all memory of what he has
been working on is erased from his mind. That's when his problem really
start to begin. He is hunted for something he has no recollection of
doing and has only a little time to work it out. He has sent himself 19
seemingly unconnected objects, before his memory was wiped, to allow him
to put the puzzle together and discover just what has gone on and what
he has done. But the authorities are after him and time is very quickly
running out.
- Written by
Alan Scott
Jennings is an engineer who works for a company and uses their rivals'
technology, alters it slightly, and has his memory wiped after each job.
When he is offered a job by James Rethrick, he is told that the job
will take three years and his mind will be wiped afterwords. Against the
advice of his friend Shorty, he takes the job. When his mind is wiped,
he heads to the bank to collect his multimillion fee where it turns out
that he, during the erased three years, signed the money away and
exchanged it for a group of nineteen seemingly worthless items. This
film follows his efforts to uncover the secret of just what he was
working on, what the items are for, evading arrest, and exploring his
relationship with Rachel Porter (Thurman), a bioscientist, who is a
vital part of triggering what is left of the scraps of memory left to
him.
- Written by
anonymous
A computer engineer named Jennings awakens one day to discover that the
last three years of his life and the work he did for a man named
Rethrick during that time has been erased from his memory. He also
learns that he agreed to the three years secret work and erasure in
exchange for a huge sum of money. But when he goes to collect his
paycheck, Jennings learns that before his memory was erased, he gave up
the money in exchange for a small bag of worthless clues and trinkets.
When the feds come looking for him, Jennings must go on the lam and try
to put together the last three years so he can prove his innocence.
Using the strange trinkets he previously left for himself, he goes on a
journey in search of Rethrick, for whom he used to work, and how he knew
that these worthless items would save his life.
- Written by
Chuck Sambuchino
Jennings, an engineer who has had part of his memory erased, struggles
to to find clues to his whereabouts for the past two years. Turns out
his employer did the evil deed as a security measure, leaving him only
with a collection of random objects to help him reconstruct his past.
- Written by
Anonymous
What seemed like a breezy idea for an engineer to net him millions of
dollars, leaves him on the run for his life and piecing together why
he's being chased.
- Written by
monkeykingma
Cast:
Ben Affleck as Jennings
Aaron Eckhart as Rethrick
Uma Thurman as Rachel
Paul Giamatti as Shorty
Colm Feore as Wolfe
Joe Morton as Agent Dodge
Michael C. Hall as Agent Klein
Peter Friedman as Attorney General Brown
Kathryn Morris as Rita Dunne
Ivana Milicevic as Maya-Rachel
Trailers:
Paycheck |
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