Paycheck
The future depends on a past he was paid to forget.
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.
- Director
- John Woo
- Worldwide
- $117M
Who's in it
Cast
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Story overview
What It's About
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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.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Paycheck returned 2.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $60M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $117M
- Release date
- Dec 25, 2003
- Runtime
- 1h 59m
- MPAA rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- Canada, United States of America
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