PAYCHECK

Year: 2003
USA: Paramount Pictures
UK: UIP (UK)
Cast: Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore, Joe Morton, Michael C Hall, Emily Holmes, Krista Allen, Ivana Milicevic, John Cassini, Fulvio Cecere, Joe Coyle, Richard Cummins, Aaron Douglas, Peter Friedman, Michelle Harrison, Chelah Horsdal, Catherine Lough Haggquist, Craig March, Kathryn Morris, Joe Morton, Peter Shinkoda, Ryan Zwick
Director: John Woo
Country: USA
USA & UK: 119 mins
USA Rated: PG-13 for intense action violence and brief language
UK Certificate: 12A contains moderate action violence
USA Release Date: 25 December 2003
UK Release Date: 16 January 2004



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Synopsis

Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is being hunted, but he doesn't know why. A world-famous genius hired by high-tech corporations for specialized top-secret projects, Jennings routinely has his memory erased once a job is completed so as not to divulge any company secrets. Highly paid for his work, he expects to earn eight figures for his latest three-year project, but upon finishing the work, instead of a big paycheck, he is given an envelope full of random objects and told that he has agreed to forfeit all payment.

With his memory erased per his contract, Jennings has no defense, until he discovers that the objects are clues to his past. Now, with the help of Rachel (Uma Thurman), the woman he has worked with and loved for the last three years, Jennings is in a race against time to put the pieces of his past together...before his previous employers have him killed.