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The PKD Movie Paycheck

I saw on Prime Video recently, Paycheck, a 2003 film starring Ben Affleck. The movie was based on the 1953 Philip K. Dick short story with the same name. Supposedly it got negative reviews when it was released back in 2003, but honestly the director, John Woo, and writer, Dean Georgaris, kept many elements common to PKD. For instance, characters smoking. Smoking characters was a thing with his writings, along with paranoia about a nuclear holocaust and general distrust of the government. All themes well captured in the movie Paycheck. The written story is only available now in the used book market.