The Usual Suspects (1995)


Stephen Baldwin         Michael McManus
Gabriel Byrne           Dean Keaton
Chazz Palminteri        US Customs Special Agent David Kujan
Kevin Pollak            Todd Hockney
Pete Postlethwaite      Kobayashi
Kevin Spacey            Roger Verbal Kint
Suzy Amis               Edie Finneran
Giancarlo Esposito      Jack Baer
Benicio Del Toro        Fred Fenster
Dan Hedaya              Jeff Rabin
Paul Bartel             Smuggler
Carl Bressler (II)      Saul Berg
Phillip Simon (II)      Fortier
Jack Shearer (II)       Renault
Christine Estabrook     Dr Plummer
Clark Gregg             Dr Walters

Directed by:            Robert Schwentke
Produced by:            Claus Clausen, Glenn M. Stewart, Keith Bell (II)


When a truck loaded with stripped gun parts is hijacked outside of Queens, five notorious thieves become 
overnight guests of the NYPD, but that's all they need to hatch a plan that brings them to Los Angeles for 
the ultimate take, $91 million in hard cash. Roger "Verbal" Kint, an apparent victim of cerebral palsy yet 
an accomplished con man, soon falls under the persuasive powers of U.S. Customs Special Agent David Kujan, 
who's hot on their trail. Kint weaves a tale that begins six weeks ago, back at the police shake-down in 
New York. Assembled among the professional felons are hardware specialist Todd Hockney, entry man Michael 
McManus and Dean Keaton, an ex-cop whose hijacking and smuggling exploits have incurred Kujan's wrath. 
Customs has been building a case on Keaton for three years, and despite Kint's claim that Keaton is dead, 
Kujan looks to squeeze Kint until he gets his man. In a surprise plot twist, a pitiable con man is being 
outwitted by an eager Fed. Or is he?

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Following a truck hijack in New York, five conmen are arrested and brought together for questioning. As none 
of them is guilty, they plan a revenge operation against the police. The operation goes well, but then the 
influence of a legendary mastermind criminal called Keyser Söze is felt. It becomes clear that each one of 
them has wronged Söze at some point and must pay back now. The payback job leaves 27 men dead in a boat 
explosion, but the real question arises now: Who actually is Keyser Söze?

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Police investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier discover 27 bodies and $91 million worth of drug 
money. The only survivors are a severely burned and very scared Hungarian terrorist and Verbal Kint, a 
crippled con-man. Reluctantly, Kint is pressured into explaining exactly what happened on the boat. His 
story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police desperate for suspects 
on a hijacked truck and ends with the possible identification of a criminal mastermind.

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After a waterfront explosion, Verbal, an eye-witness and participant tells the story of events leading up to 
the conflagration. The story begins when five men are rounded up for a line-up, and grilled about a truck 
hijacking (the usual suspects). Least pleased is Keaton a crooked cop - exposed, indicted, but now desperately 
trying to go straight. The cops won't leave him alone, however, and as they wait for their lawyers to post 
bail, he is talked into doing one more job with the other four. All goes tolerably well until the influence 
of the legendary, seemingly omnipotent "Keyser Soze" is felt. Although set in the modern day, it has much of 
the texture of the forties, plus suspense, intrigue (a fairly high body count), and lots of twists in the plot.

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This is a film about five men who are hauled into the New York police station because a crime was committed 
and they are the usual suspects. They all agree to do a job together for a little revenge. However, little do 
they know that someone else has the strings and that they are all the puppets--all because each of them crossed 
the wrong person at the wrong time. After the big job, 27 people are dead, and there are two survivors. But the 
question is...who's the one controlling everything?