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The Usual Suspects, copyright 1995
Directed by: Bryan Singer
Written by: Christopher McQuarrie

Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollack, Benicio Del Toro, Chazz Palminteri, Pete Postlethwaite, Giancarlo Esposito, Suzy Amis, Dan Hedaya

The "usual suspects" are five men: Dean Keaton (Gabriel Byrne), an ex-cop-turned-crook; Michael McManus (Stephen Baldwin), a psycho entry man; Todd Hockney (Kevin Pollak), a hardware specialist with; Fred Fenster (Benicio Del Toro), McManus' partner; and Verbal Kint (Kevin Spacey), a crippled con man. Police are investigating an exploded boat on a San Pedro pier and 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 pressurized into explaining exactly what happened on the boat. His story begins six weeks earlier with five criminals being dragged in by New York police and U.S. Customs......

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