The Usual Suspects
- Release Date
- July 19, 1995
- Director
- Bryan Singer
- Cast
- stephen baldwin , Gabriel Byrne , Benicio Del Toro , Kevin Pollak , Kevin Spacey , Chazz Palminteri
- Runtime
- 106
- Main Genre
- Crime
- Studio
- Gramercy Pictures
- Writers
- Christopher McQuarrie
- Tagline
- Five Criminals . One Line Up . No Coincidence.
Summary
A boat, believed to have $91 million in cocaine on board, is docked at a pier in San Pedro, just south of L.A. Suddenly an enormous explosion rips through the still of the night and you know that whatever or whoever was unlucky enough to be on that boat was blown halfway to hell. Within hours, a charred floating carcass is all that's left. That, and twenty-seven dead bodies. Miraculously, there are two survivors: a Hungarian gangster who lies, clinging to life and burnt to a crisp, in a hospital bed; and Roger "Verbal" Kint, a crippled con-man from New York. As U.S. Customs Special Agent David Kujan conducts his grueling inquisition, Kint weaves a tale that begins six weeks earlier, at a police lock- up in New York. Five felons, accused of hijacking a truckload of gun parts in Oueens, are brought in for a line-up. The cops don't have much in the way of evidence, so the five are held overnight. Five criminals. Five criminal minds. One night. One plan. They are suspects. Strangers. With one thing in common: Keyser Soze -- a criminal so feared, so fabled, even the icy glares of these cold-blooded killers burn with terror at the mere mention of his name. And now, the only one who can identify Keyser Soze, believed to be at the heart of this dockside massacre, is the hospitalized Hungarian. So while an FBI sketch artist struggles to complete his rendering of Soze before the witness dies, Verbal Kint sits in the D.A.'s office, taking Kujan through the steps that led him there. The inquisition is arduous. Kujan is relentless. Hour after hour he probes. Kint wavers and, finally, breaks. In the end, a pathetic, low-life con-man is outwitted by a smart, shrewd U.S. government agent. Or is he? PolyGram Filmed Entertainment and Spelling Films International present a Blue Parrot/Bad Hat Harry Production of Bryan Singer's film, THE USUAL SUSPECTS, directed by Bryan Singer, written by Christopher McQuarrie, and starring Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Kevin Pollak, Chazz Palminteri, Suzy Amis, Dan Hedaya, Giancarlo Esposito and Benicio Del Toro.
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