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Paycheck

BBC One

BBC One is a TV channel that started broadcasting on the 20th April 1964. It replaced BBC Television.

01/11/2006

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Uma Thurman and Ben Affleck try to uncover why his ex-employers want him dead.

Sci-fi thriller with Ben Affleck. An engineer who agreed to have his memory erased after a top-secret job tries to uncover the true nature of his work as the FBI track him down.

Explosive action thriller. Scientist Michael Jennings agrees to take on a top-secret job for $90 million, in exchange for having his memory of doing the job erased. When he wakes up without the money, it's up to him to piece together the events of the last three years - and when he finds out what he created, he has to stop his paymasters from getting their hands on it.

Face/Off

BBC Three

14/06/2001

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An FBI agent swaps faces and identities with a terrorist to locate a bomb.

Action thriller in which an FBI agent agrees to have the face of a terrorist grafted onto his own head in order to discover the location of an enormous bomb. John Travolta stars.

Dedicated FBI agent Sean Archer and psychotic killer Castor Troy are deadly enemies. Yet, just as Archer thinks Troy's reign of terror is over, he learns of a threat to wipe out Los Angeles with a deadly biological weapon. It seems the only way to get Castor's brother, Pollux, to talk about the lethal time bomb is a radical surgical procedure that will give Archer Troy's face and voice. Castor is lying comatose in a hospital bed, so what could possibly go wrong?

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