THE PAY DAY has a defiant and inspiring underdog story behind it: the newcomer stars of the movie Kyla Frye and Sam Benjamin, wrote it themselves.
THE PAY DAY is an independent British heist movie set in a post-pandemic world. The film follows Jenn (Kyla Frye), 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 (Simon Callow); 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?
Simon Callow as crime boss Gates
Like with any exciting heist flick, 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 (Sam Benjamin) 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 will unearth 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...
Vertical Entertainment will release THE PAY DAY on TVOD in USA November 11th, & UK, 5th December 2022.
Sam Benjamin & Kyla Frye
