Pain & Gain
Pain & Gain is a 2013 American action comedy film directed by Michael Bay and written by Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely, who based the screenplay on a 1999 series of Miami New Times articles by Pete Collins about the activities of the Sun Gym gang, a group of bodybuilding convicted of kidnapping, extortion, torture, and murder in Miami in the mid-1990s. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Dwayne Johnson, and Anthony Mackie. The title is a play on the common fitness adage "no pain, no gain".
Plot
In 1994, ex-con and bodybuilder Daniel Lugo is hired by Sun Gym owner John Mese as a manager. Lugo befriends trainer and bodybuilder Adrian Doorbal, who was recently rendered impotent from steroids. He envies the earnings and lifestyle of Victor Kershaw, a member he begins to train. Inspired to be a "doer" by motivational speaker/Playboy Jonny Wu, Lugo plans to extort Kershaw for his assets. He recruits Doorbal and manipulates Paul Doyle, another ex-con and born again Christian struggling with drug use, into blindly playing along.
More details
| author | Christopher Markus Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely Stephen McFeely |
|---|---|
| contentLocation | Miami Miami metropolitan area The Bahamas |
| director | Michael Bay |
| editor | Joel Negron Thomas A. Muldoon |
| events | Anthony Mackie Dwayne Johnson Mark Wahlberg |
| genre | action comedy crime |
| keywords | arrest bodybuilder church cia collect discover drive drug trafficking drug use drunk driving extort gang member impotency impotent kidnap kill motivational speaker notarize notary public phone sex police arrest private investigator retire run serve south american speedboat stolen money struggle traffic tranquilizer under duress |
| musicBy | Steve Jablonsky |
| producer | Donald De Line Ian Bryce Michael Bay |
| productionCompany | De Line Pictures Paramount Pictures |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Miami |
| theme | action comedy black comedy buddy comedy crime comedy religion |