Paycheck

Paycheck

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

2003•1h 59m•6.2/10

ActionAdventureMysteryScience FictionThriller

Ratings

🎬TMDb

6.2/10(2K)

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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Production

Paramount Pictures, Davis Entertainment, Lion Rock Productions, Solomon/Hackett Productions, DreamWorks Pictures

Language

EN

Status

Released

Release Date

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Cast

Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck

Michael Jennings

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Rachel Porter

Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Eckhart

James Rethrick

Paul Giamatti

Paul Giamatti

Shorty

Colm Feore

Colm Feore

John Wolfe

Joe Morton

Joe Morton

Agent Dodge

Michael C. Hall

Michael C. Hall

Agent Klein

Kathryn Morris

Kathryn Morris

Rita Dunne

Claudette Mink

Claudette Mink

Sara Rethrick

Peter Friedman

Peter Friedman

Attorney General Brown

Ivana Miličević

Ivana Miličević

Maya-Rachel

Christopher Kennedy

Christopher Kennedy

Stevens

Fulvio Cecere

Fulvio Cecere

Agent Fuman

John Cassini

John Cassini

Agent Mitchell

Callum Keith Rennie

Callum Keith Rennie

Jude - Guard

Michelle Harrison

Michelle Harrison

Jane

Emily Holmes

Emily Holmes

Betsy - Salesgirl

Kendall Cross

Kendall Cross

Scientist

Catherine Lough Haggquist

Catherine Lough Haggquist

Scientist

Krista Allen

Krista Allen

Holographic Woman

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