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Wheelchair | New York City
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Top Box Office Films | 1998 | Carter
Favorite Actor Suspense | 1998 | Mel
Favorite Actress Suspense | 1998 | Julia
Favorite Supporting Actor Suspense | 1998 | Patrick
Best Motion Picture | 1998 | Brian
Budget 75,000,000 USD
Box Office Collection 136,982,834 USD
According to an interview with director Richard Donner on the DVD of Payback: Straight Up Director's Cut (2006) that he met screenwriter Brian Helgeland when he was driving at the Warner Brothers gate, and saw Brian holding a sign that said "Will write for work, for money". Richard got out of the car and asked him about the sign, Brian replied that he was a screenwriter, and was looking for work. Donner had decided to give Helgeland a chance, which led to the two of them working on this movie. Helgeland also worked with Donner on Assassins (1995).
The secret C.I.A. MKUltra program that forms a key factor of the plot for the movie is real and well documented. It ran from 1953 to 1973 when the, then, director of the C.I.A. ordered all the files destroyed. A cache of twenty thousand documents was somehow preserved and subsequently released by a freedom of information request in 1977.
According to Richard Donner, Mel Gibson improvised the opening scenes in which his character expounds his conspiracy theories to a succession of passengers.
In the movie, several times an earthquake is referenced that took place on a southern coast, with a magnitude of 7.3 during a Presidential visit. A 7.3 earthquake did indeed happen in the Northwest part of Turkey in 1999, just to be followed by a Presidential visit.
This movie makes references to Kennedy assassin Lee Harvey Oswald. In this movie, Jerry evades capture by running from a Barnes and Noble bookstore and seeks sanctuary in a theater. This is a reference to Oswald, who ran from a book depository and hid in a theater after the assassination.
"Jerry: David Berkowitz, Ted Bundy, Richard Speck... Alice: What about them? Jerry: Serial killers. Serial killers only have two names. You ever notice that? But lone gunmen assassins, they always have three names. John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Mark David Chapman... Alice: John Hinckley. He shot Reagan. He only has two names. Jerry: Yeah, but he only just shot Reagan. Reagan didn't die. If Reagan had died, I'm pretty sure we probably would all know what John Hinckley's middle name was."
"Jerry Fletcher: Love gives you wings. It makes you fly. I don't even call it love. I call it Geronimo. When you're in love, you'll jump right from the top of the Empire State and you won't care, screaming "Geronimo" the whole way down. I love her so bad, I just... whoa, she wrecks me. I'd die for her."
