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Get ready to root for the bad guy. - Payback
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Title: Payback

Release Date: 5 Feb 1999

Runtime: 1h 40m

Genre: Action, Drama, Crime, Thriller

Director: Icon Productions, Paramount Pictures

Production Companies: Icon Productions, Paramount Pictures

Overview: 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.

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Ratings

Average Vote: 6.839 (1806 votes)

Cast

  • Porter: Mel Gibson
  • Val Resnick: Gregg Henry
  • Rosie: Maria Bello
  • Arthur Stegman: David Paymer
  • Det. Hicks: Bill Duke
  • Mrs. Lynn Porter: Deborah Kara Unger
  • Phil: John Glover
  • Carter: William Devane
  • Pearl: Lucy Liu
  • Bronson: Kris Kristofferson
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