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Synopsis: The high stakes thriller Paranoia takes us deep behind the scenes of global success to a deadly world of greed and deception. The two most powerful tech billionaires in the world (Harrison Ford and Gary Oldman) are bitter rivals with a complicated past who will stop at nothing to destroy each other. A young superstar (Liam Hemsworth), seduced by unlimited wealth and power falls between them, and becomes trapped in the middle of the twists and turns of their life-and-death game of corporate espionage. By the time he realizes his life is in danger, he is in far too deep and knows far too much for them to let him walk away.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Director(s): Robert Luketic
Production: Relativity Media
  1 nomination.
 
IMDB:
5.7
Metacritic:
32
Rotten Tomatoes:
6%
PG-13
Year:
2013
106 min
$5,334,926
Website
635 Views


Jock.

Mr. Cassidy.

Got caught with your hand

in the cookie jar, didn't you?

I... Jock, I can explain this.

Where you gonna start?

I was beginning to think

it would never happen.

Wyatt would rather watch

his company crumble than sell it to me.

Then you came along

with your blind ambition.

We recorded it all, every conversation,

every text between you and Wyatt.

You tell Nick he'll be selling me

majority shares in his company

or evidence of your collusion goes

to the FBI.

You manipulated me.

Yes.

You'll be at the Sutton Club tomorrow

at noon. You, Nick, and me.

Nobody else.

No lawyers, no handlers. Nobody.

Let him out!

Big mistake.

Yeah.

What are you doing here?

You can't be here.

You used me.

I'm sorry. OK? I'm so sorry.

You got to go,

you're not safe here.

Everything you...

everything you said,

every... everything you did...

was a lie.

No, that's not true.

Not everything.

I wanted to be someone else.

Now you are.

Now you are.

You know...

I fell for you because

you weren't like everyone else.

Emma, I'm gonna make this right.

You don't know what that is.

Well, you sure messed that up.

Hey, look, I'm trying, OK?

Yeah, well, now you're done trying.

Let's go for a ride.

Look, you don't get it, OK?

It was all a setup!

- Get in the car!

- It was all a setup!

I'm sorry, man.

What are you sorry for?

You didn't run me over, did you?

I'm the reason for all of this.

The real question is...

...what are we gonna do about it?

I'm going to use what they taught me...

...to destroy what they built.

So, what's the news

on the Dutch deal?

- I don't know.

- Good, we won't need them anyway.

Don't remember inviting you.

My going-away party got

this whole thing rolling.

I thought it was only fair

that I show up for yours.

What are you talking about?

Goddard orchestrated this whole thing...

...to entrap you

into committing a crime.

I didn't commit a crime.

You did.

This is the death of your empire, Nick.

And you were funded

with money I never touched,

by corporations I had never heard of.

He has nothing.

He has everything.

E-mails, texts.

He got the break-in on camera.

All the dots connect back to you.

The whole thing was a setup.

What's going on?

What's going on?

- We had good intel on this!

- Where did you get that intel, Nick?

This is absurd.

You can't just...

Hamilton.

Jack's hometown.

Nick...

Meachum.

That's one down.

One more to go.

Whatever you have better be good.

If it works, we both walk away

with an insurance policy

no amount of money can buy.

Yeah, but if it doesn't?

Get out your phones. Sit down.

Put the batteries on the table.

It says you've got another phone.

- Oh, no, no.

- What happened?

I lost the signal.

Both phones, they're gone.

Can you get it back?

- You'll pay for this.

- Yeah, I'll pay.

I'm buying every goddamn share

of Wyatt Corporation's stock you own,

and I'm paying

40 cents on the dollar.

How does that sound?

I get it or the Feds do.

- You'll never get away with this.

- Shut up, Adam.

You're nothing but a convenient tool,

an empty vessel.

I filled you with piss and vinegar

and told you it was champagne

and you lapped it up.

- I'm not signing this.

- Then you'll go to jail.

With what? What have you got?!

Ah...

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

What?

- Sign it!

- You have taken credit for everything.

And you've created nothing!

You arrogant bastard!

I took a brick device

that everybody laughed at

and turned it into the one thing

that no one can do without.

I earned my arrogance!

Yes, and none of that happens

without me! You stood on my shoulders!

And now I'm standing on your neck!

I'm 15 moves ahead of you, Nick.

The Dutch offer, me!

I strung you along

until the only hope was... Adam.

That's impossible.

Impossible?

I built Wyatt Corp.

Sell or not, your company is finished.

You've got nothing in the pipe,

and even if you did,

you've got no money to market it with.

Forty cents on the dollar is

a lot better than jail.

You make the choice.

Now get out.

He likes to eat his young.

They're mine to eat.

It's time to go back

to your sad little life.

Why go to all the trouble?

Because I wanted

to see him bleed. Go.

No. There's more to it,

you wouldn't risk it all just for that.

I told you, Adam,

competition breeds innovation.

With his name on the door,

he developed his ass off.

You needed him.

You needed his mind

because he was smarter than you.

He made a great processor

and a shitty phone

and he served a purpose,

just like you did. Go.

You're nothing without him.

Occura is real.

It'll do everything I said it would.

I just needed his processor to run it.

- Who is this?

- Mr. Goddard?

Who is this?

You should really trash your e-mails

when you're done reading them.

I sent you all an e-mail

this morning

in which I encoded 3DPS-like data

to identify you.

Someone is always listening, Jock.

Always.

Mr. Goddard.

Mr. Goddard, you're under arrest.

I'm gonna make your life a living hell.

Please stand,

place your hands behind your back.

Yes! We got him.

You did the right thing, kid.

The charges against you

include felony fraud,

industrial espionage,

obstruction of justice, insider trading.

Augustine Goddard,

you have the right to remain silent.

Anything you say can

and will be used in a court of law.

You have the right to an attorney.

If you cannot afford an attorney,

the court will appoint one for you.

Do you understand these rights

as I have read them to you?

I handed the Feds Wyatt and Goddard.

They won't be seeing light

for a very long time.

Judith and Meachum got

what they deserved too.

As for me, I got lucky.

The Feds cut me a break

for my cooperation.

No...

The things I thought I wanted

don't seem so important anymore.

I do know right from wrong, and...

...I'm sorry it took me

so long to act on it.

I just want you to know that

I never wanted to do any

of this to you.

I hope one day I can

make things right.

I'm sorry, Emma.

Thanks.

Go, go, go, go!

Go! Go! Go!

Run, run!

What?

Did I ever tell you, you were right?

About what?

Everything.

I mean that.

I'm sorry I didn't listen to you.

How's it going with that girl?

Well, she won't talk to me.

It ain't over till it's over.

You know how long it took me

to get a date with your mother?

How long?

A long time.

And I was much better-looking then

than you are now.

- Oh, is that right?

- Oh, yeah. Oh, yeah.

Where you going?

The subway is this way.

I got a faster ride. Come on.

I thought we were done

with this sh*t?

It's a rental, Dad.

I got it for the day.

Oh, yeah?

Well, then, let's have some fun.

One way to remember who you are...

How do you open this thing?

...is to remember who your heroes are.

I'm doing things my way now.

Building from the ground up.

There are no shortcuts.

Oh my God,

what are you doing?

- What? I messed it up.

- We have a lot of things to do.

- Come on!

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Jason Hall

Jason Dean Hall (born 1972) is an American screenwriter, film director and former actor. He played the recurring character of Devon MacLeish in Buffy the Vampire Slayer. He had a guest starring role on Without a Trace as Jesse in Season Two. Hall attended Phillips Exeter Academy. Hall studied business, English and cinema at the University of Southern California. more…

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