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PAIN & GAIN (2013) - Full Watch Along

Pain & Gain is a 2013 American black comedy crime film directed by Michael Bay and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely. It is based on a 1999 series of Miami New Times articles by Pete Collins about the activities of the Sun Gym gang, a group of bodybuilding ex-convicts convicted of kidnapping, extortion, torture, and murder in Miami in the mid-1990s. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie as members of the gang, with supporting roles played by Tony Shalhoub and Ed Harris. The title is a play on the fitness adage "no pain, no gain".

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Dave Beth

I think I've seen this, though I can't quite place when or where. Something familiar about it though.

Chris

This has been the one for the last decade I always point to to say "The Rock is actually incredible, he just keeps picking crappy projects!!" Same thing as Out of Sight for JLo... the alternative versions of their careers could've been awesome.

JAKH

- Author Elmore Leonard was living in Florida in the mid 1990's. The Sun Gym case was the inspiration for his book (and the following movie) "Out of Sight" (1998). He likes to use characters from other books for continuity, Michael Keaton played the same character (Agent Ray Nicolette) in "Out of Sight" as he did in the movie "Jackie Brown" (1997), which was based on one of Elmore Leonard's previous books, "Rum Punch". - Composer Steve Jablonsky also did the score for other Wahlberg true story movies: "Deepwater Horizon" and "Lone Survivor"

Paul Hildebrand

I have to assume that was very loosely based on the true story. Kidnapping and torturing bad guy (Adrian) gets married and Coby coos with excitement at the sight of the couple, LOL!

fastecp1

Yeah, this was funny. I'd never seen this before, but I had seen the documentary on 48 Hours, and I believe it was titled the same as Pain and Gain. But if I remember correctly, the true story was more violent, believe it or not. I'm always up for a movie based on a true story. Please keep them coming, Coby