PAYCHECK

'''PAYCHECK. John Woo, dir.,''' prod. (among several). Dean Georgaris, script, from the short story by Philip K. Dick (in Imagination June 1953). USA: Paramount Pictures, DreamWorks SKG, Davis Entertainment, Lion Rock Productions, Solomon/Hackett Productions (prod.) / Paramount (N. American dist.), 2003. Ben Affleck, Aaron Eckhart, Uma Thurman, Paul Giamatti, featured players.

Uses the "Paycheck" premise for a significantly different narrative, one in which the use of a machine to view the future is highly dangerous. The happy ending includes the destruction of the machine—thereby sparing Earth a nuclear war—followed by honest labor by lovers and friends, among plants.