At the Sundance Film Festival, screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie pitched his idea for the gangster mystery The Usual Suspects to director Bryan Singer (X-Men, Operation Valkyrie). They got it with difficulty $6 million budget together and shot the film in just 35 days. Nobody would have expected the great success that followed. Among other things, Kevin Spacey won his first for his performance Oscar for best supporting actor.
That’s what the Oscar-winning confusion game The Usual Suspects is all about
In a shootout followed by an explosion at the port of Los Angeles 27 people lose their lives. The investigators are faced with a puzzle, because even if astronomical sums of money and heavily armed gangsters are at you Drug deal indicate that there is no trace of drugs at the crime scene.
Customs Inspector Kujan (Chazz Palminteri) hopes to get answers by interrogating survivor Verbal (Spacey). Bit by bit, the questioning reveals what he is saying complex web of betrayalextortion, corruption and murder.
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The Usual Suspects delivers one of Hollywood’s best movie moments
Kevin Spacey wasn’t the only one who won an Oscar in 1996. Later Mission: Impossible regular director Christopher McQuarrie also received the golden boy for that best original screenplay. The reviews were overwhelming with praise, and the confusing game received one on Rotten Tomatoes Score of 87 percent. Our colleague from FILMSTARTS wrote in his review:
The highlight here is clearly the spectacular final twist. What screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie […] unleashes on the audience is so surprising that in large parts of the the sheer speechlessness of the cinema audience at the time stopped and the trade press literally went crazy. McQuarrie rightly received the Oscar for best screenplay. The final sequence […] is undoubtedly one of them best and most intelligent moments of cinemathat Hollywood has ever managed.
The crime film is also very popular with our community with a rating of 8. In the ranking of the best gangster films, The Usual Suspects even comes in 7th place.
When is The Usual Suspects on TV?
The cultural broadcaster arte shows the confusion today, on April 15, at 8:15 p.m. There will be a repeat on the night of Friday, April 19th at 1:50 a.m. Regardless of the television program, you can buy or rent The Usual Suspects as a stream on Amazon, among other places.
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