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Starring: Ben Affleck, Uma Thurman, Michael C. Hall, Aaron Eckhart, Kathryn Morris, Paul Giamatti, Colm Feore
Directed by: John Woo
Screenplay by: Dean Georgaris
Release Date: December 25, 2003
Running Time: 120 minutes
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for intense action, violence, brief language.
Box Office: $53,790,451 (US total)
Studio: Paramount Pictures
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 Ben Affleck and Uma Thurman in Paycheck. |
 Paycheck Production NotesRemember the Future.
Jennings, an electrical engineer who has been working for the government for the past two years is trying to collect his paycheck. The problem is that the project he was working on is top secret and his employer has erased his memory concerning the project. Meanwhile, the government is trying to arrest him for a crime he apparently commited while he was working on the project that he can't remember either.
Michael Jennings (Ben Affleck) is being hunted, but he doesn't know why. A world- famous genius hired by high-tech corporations for specialized top-secret projects, Jennings routinely has his memory erased once a job is completed so as not to divulge any company secrets.
Highly paid for his work, he expects to earn eight figures for his latest three-year project, but upon finishing the work, instead of a big paycheck, he is given an envelope full of random objects and told that he has agreed to forfeit all payment. With his memory erased per his contract, Jennings has no defense, until he discovers that the objects are clues to his past. Now, with the help of Rachel (Uma Thurman), the woman he has worked with and loved for the last three years, Jennings is in a race against time to put the pieces of his past together ... before his previous employers have him killed.
 Director John Woo and producer Terence Chang assembled some of their most trusted collaborators in the making of "Paycheck," including cinematographer Jeffrey Kimball, ASC, weapons coorindator Rock Galotti and stunt brothers Gregg and Brian Smrz. Shot entirely in Vancouver, Canada, which doubled for Seattle, the production team made their home base at Vancouver Film Studios for the four-month shoot.
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