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Pain & Gain
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Pain & Gain is a 2013 American film directed by Michael Bay, who also served as producer. The screenplay was written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. The cast includes Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, Anthony Mackie, and Tony Shalhoub. Steve Jablonsky composed the music, while Ben Seresin was the director of photography. The film was produced by Paramount Pictures, De Line Pictures, and Bay Films.
The narrative is set in the Miami metropolitan area, Miami, and The Bahamas, with filming taking place in Miami. The movie runs for 129 minutes and was distributed by Netflix in video on demand format. It is categorized as a comedy, crime, action, and drama film. The production had a budget of 25,000,000 and generated revenue of 87,305,549.
Critical reception varied, with review scores including 5.4/10, 45/100, and 49%. The film holds a 6.4 rating on IMDb based on 241,571 votes and a 6.287 average from 4,800 votes on TMDb. Its tagline is "Their American dream is bigger than yours."
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6.3Daniel Lugo, manager of the Sun Gym in 1990s Miami, decides that there is only one way to achieve his version of the American dream: extortion. To achieve his goal, he recruits musclemen Paul and Adrian as accomplices. After several failed attempts, they abduct rich businessman Victor Kershaw and convince him to sign over all his assets to them. But when Kershaw makes it out alive, authorities are reluctant to believe his story.
Cast
- Mark Wahlberg as Daniel Lugo
- Dwayne Johnson as Paul Doyle
- Anthony Mackie as Adrian Doorbal
- Tony Shalhoub as Victor Kershaw
- Ed Harris as Ed DuBois
- Rob Corddry as John Mese
Themes
- miami, florida
- scam
- weight lifting
- weightlifting
- duringcreditsstinger
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Key facts
- Directed by
- Michael Bay
- Screenplay by
- Christopher Markus, Stephen McFeely
- Based on
- Pain & Gain , by Pete Collins
- Produced by
- Michael Bay Ian Bryce Donald De Line
- Starring
- Mark Wahlberg Dwayne Johnson Anthony Mackie Tony Shalhoub Ed Harris
- Cinematography
- Ben Seresin
- Edited by
- Thomas A. Muldoon Joel Negron
- Music by
- Steve Jablonsky
- Production companies
- Paramount Pictures De Line Pictures Bay Films
- Distributed by
- Paramount Pictures
- Release dates
- April 11, 2013 ( 2013-04-11 ) ( Miami premiere) April 26, 2013 ( 2013-04-26 ) (United States)
- Running time
- 129 minutes
- Country
- United States
- Language
- English
- Budget
- $26 million
- Box office
- $86.2 million
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Encyclopedic overview
Pain & Gain is a 2013 American black comedy crime film directed by Michael Bay and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It is loosely based on a 1999 series of Miami New Times articles by Pete Collins about the activities of the Sun Gym gang, a group of bodybuilding ex-convicts convicted of kidnapping, extortion, torture, and murder in Miami in the mid-1990s. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as members of the gang, with supporting roles played by Tony Shalhoub and Ed Harris. The title is a play on the fitness adage "no pain, no gain".
Pain & Gain premiered in Miami on April 11, 2013, before Paramount Pictures released it in theatres on April 26. The film received mixed reviews; it was praised for its script, direction, and performances, but criticized for its historical inaccuracies. A commercial success, it grossed $86 million worldwide against a $26 million production budget. Marc Schiller, the Sun Gym gang's primary victim who was depicted in the film as Victor Kershaw, sued the production company over his portrayal.
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