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    Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut [HD]

    Buy Payback: Straight Up - The Director's Cut [HD] on HD-DVD
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    Released: 2007-04-10

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    Payback: Straight Up - The Director's... HD-DVD Cast & Features Cast:
    Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer, Bill Duke, Jack Conley, William Devane, James Coburn, John Glover, Lucy Liu, Sally Kellerman

    Director(s): Brian Helgeland

    Features:
    Commentary by writer/director Brian Helgeland
    Paybacks Are a Bitch: On Location in Chicago
    Paybacks Are a Bitch: On Set in Los Angeles
    Same Story, Different Movie - Creating Payback: The Director's Cut
    The Hunter: A Conversation With Author Donald E. Westlake
    Payback: Straight Up - The Director's... HD-DVD Details
    Video:
    COLOR
    Language:
    English
    Subtitles:
    English, French, Spanish
    		 Running Time: 90
    Genre: Action Adventure
    Item Weight: 1
    UPC: 097361197944
    Product Code: PRT119794HD
    Format: HD-DVD
    Year:2006
    Studio: Paramount
    Payback: Straight Up - The Director's... HD-DVD Summary Seven years after seeing his original vision butchered under studio interference as well as his star's, director Brian Helgeland finally was given the chance to piece together his director's cut under the name Payback: Straight Up.

    Along with reinstating the original third Act, this version represents a return to the gritty world of '70s filmmaking that was the groundwork of the production up until Paramount got cold feet and ordered extensive reshoots.

    The story centers on Porter (Mel Gibson), a thief that is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular Gregg Henry), who plans a double cross with Porter's wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger) after showing her a photo of her husband in the arms of another girl (Maria Bello).

    As they're stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, Lynn shoots Porter in the back and speeds away with Val and money in tow.

    What they didn't know is that Porter would come back looking for his cut, which has been used to pay off Val's mob debts so he could return to "The Syndicate.

    " Helgeland, the screenwriter for L.

    A.

    Confidential     and Mystic River, made his directing debut with this adaptation of the novel The Hunter by Donald E.

    Westlake     writing under the pseudonym, Richard Stark.

    The same novel served as the basis for John Boorman's Point Blank starring Lee Marvin.

    This version excises Kris Kristofferson's performance entirely and features a new score by Scott Stambler.