Payback

Payback (1997)

One woman's stand against a maniac cop.

Kathryn runs a restaurant but one night she calls the police after she sees a suspicious man waiting in his car. However Kathryn sees one of the three police officers, Kaleen, assault the man with their sticks and kicking them. Under advice from Jack, the police internal investigator, she tells a court and Kaleen is put on suspension and kept to his rank for the rest of the career. However Kathryn gets weird phone calls, her son is arrested for murder and her teaching husband's career is threatened by checks on his record. All of this is because Kaleen is out for revenge and he plans to use the law and his friends in the police to do it. Only Kathryn, her family and Jack stands in his way.

Date of release
1997-02-10
TMDB
6.8 / 10 (4)
Runtime
1h 34m
Genres
Drama, Crime, TV Movie
Director
Ken Cameron

Casting

Interesting facts

Payback is a 1997 thriller TV film starring Mary Tyler Moore and Ed Asner, marking the first time they were on screen together for 20 years. It aired on the ABC network in February.

Production

Filming began in Portland in September 1996. In November, after seeing a rough cut, Moore "disowned" the film. By the time it aired she would not talk about it citing a lawsuit coming after earlier negative comments.

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