Paycheck

Dec 25, 2003

1h 59m

★ 6.2

The future depends on a past he was paid to forget.

Overview

Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

Genres

Action

Adventure

Mystery

Science Fiction

Thriller

Production Companies

Paramount Pictures

Davis Entertainment

Lion Rock Productions

Solomon/Hackett Productions

DreamWorks Pictures

Paycheck Trailers

Cast

Michael Jennings

Ben Affleck

Rachel Porter

Uma Thurman

James Rethrick

Aaron Eckhart

Shorty

Paul Giamatti

John Wolfe

Colm Feore

Agent Dodge

Joe Morton

Agent Klein

Michael C. Hall

Rita Dunne

Kathryn Morris

Sara Rethrick

Claudette Mink

Attorney General Brown

Peter Friedman

Maya-Rachel

Ivana Miličević

Stevens

Christopher Kennedy

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