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.
ActionAdventureMysteryScience FictionThrilleramnesiaprophecytechnologyengineertimeevil corporationcyberpunkscientistmillionairebased on short storytech noirseeing the future
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Character
Earnest, unpretentious, contemporary and grave.
- earnestironic
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
Who loves it, who doesn't
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Cast
- Ben AffleckMichael Jennings
- Aaron EckhartJames Rethrick
- Uma ThurmanRachel Porter
- Paul GiamattiShorty
- Colm FeoreJohn Wolfe
- Joe MortonAgent Dodge
- Michael C. HallAgent Klein
- Peter FriedmanAttorney General Brown
- Kathryn MorrisRita Dunne
- Ivana MiličevićMaya-Rachel
Crew
- John WooDirector
- Dean GeorgarisScreenplay
- Jeffrey L. KimballDirector of Photography
- John PowellOriginal Music Composer
- Christopher RouseEditor
- Kevin StittEditor
- John WooProducer
- John DavisProducer
- Terence ChangProducer
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