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Dominican Rep. Paycheck
- Original title
- Paycheck
- Year
- 2003
- Running time
- 114 min.
- Country
United States- Director
- Screenwriter
- Dean Georgaris. Tale: Philip K. Dick
- Cast
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Ben Affleck
Uma Thurman
Aaron Eckhart
Colm Feore
Paul Giamatti
Joe Morton
Michael C. Hall
Emily Holmes
Krista Allen
John Cassini
Fulvio Cecere- Joe Coyle
- Richard Cummins
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- Music
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Genre
- Sci-Fi. Thriller. Action | Time Travel. Cyberpunk. Futuristic Thriller
- Movie Groups
- Philip K. Dick Adaptations
- Synopsis
- Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is a high-paid engineer who works on hush-hush computer inventions and technology for shady companies. Later, his memory is wiped clean, so he has no recollection of his work. His so-called friend Rethrick (Aaron Eckhardt) offers him enough money to retire by working on a project at Rethrick's company, Allcom. When Jennings emerges three years later, sans memory, he tries to collect his paycheck. At the bank, he's handed a manila envelope filled with cryptic items he doesn't recognize, and told he voluntarily forfeited his entire paycheck. He also has a stunning girlfriend named Dr. Rachel Porter (Uma Thurman) who is likewise ensnared in the conspiracy. Jennings must somehow piece together the clues he left for himself, and find out why everyone is out to kill him... Adapted from a mind-bending sci-fi thriller novel by Philip K. Dick.
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- Awards
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2003: Nominated for the Razzie Awards: Worst Actor (Ben Affleck)2009: Razzie Awards: nominated to Worst Actor of the Decade.2003: Saturn Awards (Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films): nominated to Best Science Fiction Film.
- Critics' reviews
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"Running mainly on adrenaline and a gimmick, it's different from other holiday movies in that it's not ambitious, earnest or overblown, and it obviously wasn't made with one eye on the Oscars."
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"[It] may not intend to be political, but it's marked as much by its era as post-Watergate thrillers like 'The Parallax View' or 'Three Days Of The Condor.'"
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"A nifty science-fiction twist on the old amnesia plot where a guy spends most of a movie trying to remember what he did and why everyone is after him."
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"The amazing thing about John Woo's steely, impersonal adaptation of Philip K. Dick sci-fi story about a tech genius whose memory is erased...is how it vanishes in front of our eyes even as we watch it."
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"Woo has never been particularly good at human stuff, and to the extent that Paycheck is, or should be, a love story, it feels forced."
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"We're left with the painful reality that Paycheck might get Alfred Hitchcock, but it certainly doesn't know Philip K. Dick"
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"A fun if dumb movie."
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"There are chases that feel way too long, and dialogue that feels flat. Affleck and Thurman make a handsome duo, but there's no spark between the actors."
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