Payback (1999/I)

Regisseur:

Brian Helgeland

Drehbuchautoren:

Donald E. Westlake (novel)
Brian Helgeland (screenplay) ...

Premierendatum:

5. Februar 1999 (USA)

Genre:

Action | Komödie | Krimi | Drama | Thriller

Werbezeile:

No More Mr. Nice Guy

Plot:

Porter is shot by his wife and best friend and is left to die. When he survives he plots revenge.

Plot Keywords:

Phone Bomb | Dominatrix | Chinese Mafia | 1970s | Police Corruption

Filmpreise:

2 wins & 2 nominations

Nutzerkommentare:

Payback - Great movie in the "film noir" genre

Besetzung

Mel Gibson	...	Porter
Gregg Henry	...	Val Resnick
Maria Bello	...	Rosie
David Paymer	...	Arthur Stegman
Bill Duke	...	Det. Hicks
Deborah Kara Unger	...	Mrs. Lynn Porter
John Glover	...	Phil
William Devane	...	Carter
Lucy Liu	...	Pearl (as Lucy Alexis Liu)
Jack Conley	...	Det. Leary
Kris Kristofferson	...	Bronson
Mark Alfa	...	Johnny's Friend #2
Kwame Amoaku	...	Radioman
Justin Ashforth	...	Michael, Bartender #1
Len Bajenski	...	Fairfax Bodyguard #1

Alternativ:

Porter (USA) (working title)
Payback - Zahltag (Österreich) (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for strong violence, language, and drug and sexual content.

Länge:

100 Min | USA:90 Min (director's cut)

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe

Seitenverhältnis:

2.35 : 1

Tonverfahren:

SDDS | DTS | Dolby Digital

Altersfreigabe:

USA:R (certificate #36313) | Canada:PG (Ontario) | Peru:14 | Argentina:13 | New Zealand:R18 | Iceland:16 | Philippines:R-18 | Australia:MA | Belgium:KNT | Finland:K-16 | France:-16 | Germany:16 | Netherlands:16 | Norway:18 | Portugal:M/16 | Singapore:NC-16 | South Korea:18 | Spain:18 | Sweden:15 | Switzerland:16 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:16 (canton of Vaud) | UK:18 (cut) | Canada:16+ (Quebec)

Drehorte:

Chicago, Illinois, USA

Firma:

Icon Entertainment International

Dies und das:

Sally Kellerman is the original voice of Bronson in Brian Helgeland's Director's cut of the picture and is never seen. For the theatrical cut, Bronson is played by Kris Kristofferson for all the re-shot scenes.

Pannen:

Abfolgefehler: The prostitute's hair on her left shoulder when she is talking to Porter in her apartment.

Dialogzitate:

[first lines]
Porter: [voiceover] GSW: that's what the hospitals call it: gunshot wound. Doctor has to report it to the police. That makes it hard for guys in my line to get what I call, quality health care.

Bezüge zu anderen Titeln:

Verweis/Anspielung/Erwähnung in The Hunter: A Conversation with Author Donald E. Westlake (2007) (V)

Soundtrack:

If I Had My Life to Live Over

Payback - Great movie in the "film noir" genre

Payback directed by Brian Helgeland is a classic "film noir" following the tradition of urban "gangster movies" and Mel Gibson is giving an outstanding performance as Porter - the bad guy who is only slightly better than the rest of the gangsters, hoodlums, crooks and scoundrels to be met in the film.

"Payback" is a great movie in this genre. Donald E. Westlake, who has written the novel on which the film is based, has picked up the thread of Raymond Chandler and Dashiel Hammett to create an authentic universe with "real" characters, and Brian Helgeland has succeeded to bring this universe to the screen.

Everything about this movie is great - the storyboard, the cast, the direction and the soundtrack. This film bears resemblance to Sergio Leone's "The Good, the Bad & the Ugly" and if you have seen "the Maltese Falcon" starring Bogart, you should definitely see "Payback".