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Payback
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.
1999 · Directed by Brian Helgeland · 100 min · Action · Drama · Crime · Thriller · 12 frames
Tagline
Get ready to root for the bad guy.
Crew
- Screenplay: Brian Helgeland, Terry Hayes
- Cinematography: Ericson Core
- Edited by: Kevin Stitt
- Music: Chris Boardman
- Production design: Richard Hoover
- Produced by: Bruce Davey
Cast
- Mel Gibson as Porter
- Gregg Henry as Val Resnick
- Maria Bello as Rosie
- David Paymer as Arthur Stegman
- Bill Duke as Det. Hicks
- Deborah Kara Unger as Mrs. Lynn Porter
- John Glover as Phil
- William Devane as Carter
- Lucy Liu as Pearl
- Kris Kristofferson as Bronson
Production
- Country: United States of America
- Language: English
- Studios: Icon Productions
- Budget: $90,000,000
- Box office: $161,626,121
- Themes: hotel, new york city, prostitute, robbery, based on novel or book, heroin, anti hero, greed, money, revenge
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