Pain & Gain (2013)

Directed by

Michael Bay

Genre

drama film, comedy film, action film, crime film

Country

United States

Runtime

2h 09m

Rated

R

Rating

6.3 of 10 from 4,848 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A group of bodybuilding ex-convicts in Miami kidnap and extort a wealthy man. Their scheme spirals out of control into torture and murder.

darkly comicfast-pacedbrashabsurdexplosivecynicalover-the-top

What happens

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. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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