Payback
Get ready to root for the bad guy.
With friends like these, who needs enemies?That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think.Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
- Director
- Brian Helgeland
- Worldwide
- $162M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Payback returned 1.8× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $90M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $162M
- Release date
- Feb 5, 1999
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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