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"The Usual Suspects" is a 1995 crime thriller directed by Bryan Singer that follows a group of small-time criminals brought together for a mysterious job. The film is notable for its intricate plot structure and twist ending that recontextualizes the entire story.
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8.2Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord, Keyser Soze, not only exists, but was also responsible for drawing him and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro harbor – leaving few survivors. Verbal lures his interrogators with an incredible story of the crime lord's almost supernatural prowess.
Cast
- Stephen Baldwin as McManus
- Gabriel Byrne as Keaton
- Benicio del Toro as Fenster
- Kevin Pollak as Hockney
- Kevin Spacey as Verbal
- Chazz Palminteri as Dave Kujan
Themes
- new york city
- robbery
- relatives
- heist
- flashback
- police corruption
- whodunit
- los angeles, california
- theft
- criminal
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- film
- Country of origin
- United States
- Original language
- Hungarian
- Main subject
- deception
- Director
- Bryan Singer
- Screenwriter
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Composer
- John Ottman
- Producer
- Bryan Singer
- Production company
- PolyGram Filmed Entertainment
- Cinematographer
- Newton Thomas Sigel
- Narrative location
- San Pedro
- Filming location
- Malibu
- Duration
- 106
- FilmAffinity ID
- 408515
- Distribution format
- video on demand
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- publication date
- 1996-01-18
- film editor
- John Ottman
- title
- The Usual Suspects
- nominated for
- Academy Award for Best Writing, Original Screenplay
- narrator
- unreliable narrator
- color
- black-and-white
- distributed by
- Netflix
- set in period
- 1990s
- review score
- 76/100
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Encyclopedic overview
The Usual Suspects is a 1995 crime thriller film directed by Bryan Singer and written by Christopher McQuarrie. It stars Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri and Pete Postlethwaite.
The plot follows the interrogation of Roger "Verbal" Kint, a small-time con man, who is one of only two survivors of a massacre and fire on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles. Through flashback and narration, Kint tells an interrogator a convoluted story of events that led him and his criminal companions to the boat, and of a mysterious crime lord—known as Keyser Söze—who controlled them. The film was shot on a $6 million budget and began as a title taken from a column in Spy magazine called "The Usual Suspects", after one of Claude Rains' most memorable lines in the classic film Casablanca, and Singer thought that it would make a good title for a film.
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