Payback Season

Payback Season (2012)

If the payment stops, the football stops...

Jerome breaks out of his council estate gang and becomes a successful and famous footballer, but he soon learns that his old life isn't as easy to leave behind as he had hoped when his old gang catch up with him and start demanding regular payments.

Date of release
2012-03-09
TMDB
3.7 / 10 (7)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Drama, Action
Director
Danny Donnelly

Casting

Interesting facts

Payback Season is a British drama film written by Danny Donnelly and Jenny Fitzpatrick that was released to cinemas on 9 March 2012. The film was directed by Danny Donnelly, and stars Adam Deacon, Nichola Burley and Leo Gregory.

Production

In August 2011, Geoff Hurst signed on to play the part of a football agent, making this his first role in a feature film.

Variety wrote that the film was "let down by generic material that's light on both action and persuasive plotting", but offered that a later edited release may be more successful. View Auckland panned the film and its director, and wrote that the film was "poorly directed and often excruciating to watch", with both a simplistic script and "an awkward central performance from BAFTA Rising Star Adam Deacon." They felt that while Deacon was fine whe…

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