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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. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.

Action
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Mystery
Science Fiction
Thriller

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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.

Released December 25, 2003

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Ben Affleck

Ben Affleck

Michael Jennings

Uma Thurman

Uma Thurman

Rachel Porter

Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Eckhart

James Rethrick

Paul Giamatti

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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

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