Payback is a 1999 crime thriller starring Mel Gibson and directed by Brian Helgeland. The film shares the same source material as the 1967 noir-classic Point Blank (whose rights are currently owned by Warner Bros., the international distributor of Payback, via its ownership of the pre-1986 MGM library through Turner Entertainment), directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin; both are based on the book The Hunter, written by Donald E. Westla...
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Payback is a 1999 crime thriller starring Mel Gibson and directed by Brian Helgeland. The film shares the same source material as the 1967 noir-classic Point Blank (whose rights are currently owned by Warner Bros., the international distributor of Payback, via its ownership of the pre-1986 MGM library through Turner Entertainment), directed by John Boorman and starring Lee Marvin; both are based on the book The Hunter, written by Donald E. Westlake under the pseudonym of Richard Stark.
The film was Helgeland's directorial debut after a career as a screenwriter. Helgeland in 2007 issued a director's cut greatly different from the version released by the studio.
In a seedy basement, a man pours a glass of whiskey and sterilizes his crude surgical tools. Porter lies severely wounded with two gunshot wounds in his back. After the removal of the rounds and several months of healing, Porter returns and begins tracking down Val Resnick, his former partner, and Lynn, his ex-wife, both of whom...
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