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The Pay Day. Jenn (Kyla Frye). Credit: Ryan O'Donoghue
The Pay Day

The Pay Day

  • 2022 film

Comic heist caper focused around a 30-year-old IT technician and a cache of lucrative data. Stars Kyla Frye, Sam Benjamin, Simon Callow, Vincent Jerome, Marcus Onilude and more.

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The Pay Day. Image shows left to right: Jenn (Kyla Frye), Sam Benjamin. Credit: Ryan O'Donoghue

Key details

Genre
Film
Released
2022
Creators
Sam Benjamin and Kyla Frye
Stars
Kyla Frye, Sam Benjamin, Simon Callow, Vincent Jerome, Marcus Onilude, Rae Lim and Ellen Thomas
Writer
Sam Benjamin
Director
Sam Bradford
Producers
Sam Bradford, Kyla Frye and Grace Sargeant

Jenn, a 30-year-old, broke, frustrated, and single IT technician feeling betrayed by the system, is offered a lucrative theft job by eccentric crime boss Gates; she decides this is her chance to escape mediocrity. For this life-changing payday, Jenn has to infiltrate a FTSE 100 company office building with a fake identity, override their state-of-the-art security system, hack in and retrieve the data, and then leave without a trace. What could possibly go wrong?

The mission doesn't exactly go to plan. Jenn overcomes the initial treacherous and nail-biting setbacks and finds her Ocean's Eleven-style groove on the job. But just when she thinks she's cracked it, a bewitching working-class grifter called George appears and swipes the prize from her. After being wrong-footed, she outsmarts George, but when she accidentally shoots him in the shoulder, both are forced to rethink their tactics.

As they discover they have more in common than they first thought, Jenn unearths new levels of fearlessness and tenacity as a game of romantically charged cat and mouse ensues, with the lucrative data and their lives on the line...

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Additional details

Duration
93 minutes
UK release
Monday 5th December 2022
Picture
Colour

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