The Usual Suspects movie

A boat has been destroyed, criminals are dead, and the key to this mystery lies with the only survivor and his twisted, convoluted story beginning with five career crooks in a seemingly random police lineup.

It stars Kevin Spacey (who won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance), Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite, Benicio Del Toro, and Kevin Pollak.The Usual Suspects tells the story of Roger "Verbal" Kint (Spacey), a small-time con man, who is in a police interrogation, and tells his interrogator, Agent Kujan (Palminteri), a convoluted story about events leading to a massacre and massive fire that have just taken place on a ship docked at the Port of Los Angeles in San Pedro Bay. Using flashback and narration, Verbals story becomes increasingly complex as he tries to explain why he and his partners-in-crime were on that boat, but not everything is as it seems.The film, shot on a $6 million budget, did not create much excitement prior to its initial release and was released in few theaters, but it received favourable reviews and was given a wider release, grossing far more than expected. The film eventually became one of the most highly regarded of the crime-drama genre.

Ten years after its release, it is consistently found in the Top 20 on the Internet Movie Databases Top 250 films (as of May 2007 it currently resides at #19). PlotThe movie begins with a man lying on his back on the deck of a ship. He attempts to light a trail of spilled gasoline with a match in an attempt to destroy the ship, but it is extinguished by a stream of urine from an unseen person. The figure then approaches the man on the ship, and the two enter a brief conversation. The two men seem to know each other, the shadowy man is addressed as "Keyser", and the man lying on the ship as "Keaton". Keaton asks what time it is, and after replying Keyser appears to shoot him twice, (although Keaton is not on screen while this happens), then uses his cigarette to set the ship ablaze as he makes his escape.We then cut to Agent Kujan who is interrogating Verbal Kint on the status of criminal Dean Keaton (Byrne), who was involved in the boat fire.

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The Usual Suspects Cast

• Benicio Del Toro
• Carl Bressler
• Chazz Palminteri
• Christine Estabrook
• Dan Hedaya
• Gabriel Byrne
• Giancarlo Esposito
• Jack Shearer
• Kevin Pollak
• Kevin Spacey
• Paul Bartel
• Pete Postlethwaite
• Phillip Simon
• Suzy Amis