The Usual Suspects
Crime, Mystery, Thriller
MGM / UA  (1995) 106 mins R

8.7 (217,325 votes) Top 250: #21
"Tough. Intelligent. Compelling. Irresistible!" - Newsweek

Winner of two 1995 Academy Awards, including Best Original Screenplay, this masterful, atmospheric film noir enraptured audiences with its complex and riveting storyline, gritty, tour-de-force performances (including an Oscar-winning turn by Kevin Spacey) and a climax that is truly deserving of the word stunning. This "thoroughly engrossing film " (HBO) is so "gripping and diabolically clever" (The Wall Street Journal) that it becomes "a maze you'll be happy to get lost in" (Los Angeles Times)!

Held in an L.A. interrogation room, Verbal Kint (Spacey) attempts to convince the feds that a mythic crime lord 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. But as Ki...

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Cast and Crew
Suzy Amis  ......  Edie Finneran
Kevin Pollak  ......  Todd Hockney
Gabriel Byrne  ......  Dean Keaton
Kevin Spacey  ......  Roger 'Verbal' Kint
Pete Postlethwaite  ......  Kobayashi
Giancarlo Esposito  ......  Jack Baer, FBI
Director  .....  Bryan Singer
Producer  .....  Bryan Singer; Michael McDonnell; Hans Brockmann; François Duplat
Writer  .....  Christopher McQuarrie
Notes
Goofs:
Continuity: The blood on the elevator window. (more)

Trivia:
When Redfoot flicks his cigarette into the face of McManus, it was originally intended to hit his chest, so McManus' reaction is actually Stephen Baldwin's real unscripted reaction that Bryan Singer decided to keep in the movie. (more)

Filming Locations:
Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, New York, USA (more)

Quotes:
[first lines]
Keyser Soze: How you doing Keaton?
Keaton: I can't feel my legs... Keyser.
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Awards:
Won 2 Oscars. Another 22 wins & 7 nominations (more)