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directed by: Bryan Singer starring: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Stephen Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro  List Price: $9.94 Price: $0.90 You Save: $9.04 (91%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Binding: VHS Tape EAN: 9780792842613 Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, Original recording reissued, NTSC ISBN: 0792842618 Label: MGM (Video & DVD) Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD) Number Of Items: 1 Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD) Release Date: October 05, 1999 Running Time: 106 minutes Studio: MGM (Video & DVD) Theatrical Release Date: August 16, 1995 Sales Rank: 9255 Related Items: Editorial Review: Description: Winner of two 1995 Academy Awards(r), 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(r)-winning* turn by Kevin Spacey) and a climax that is truly deserving of the word stunning. Also starring Stephen Baldwin, Gabriel Byrne, Chazz Palminteri, Kevin Pollak and Pete Postlethwaite, 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 attempts to convince the feds that the mythic crime lord not only exists, but was also responsible for drawinghim and his four partners into a multi-million dollar heist that ended with an explosion in San Pedro Harborleaving few survivors. But as Kint lures his interrogators into the incredible story of this crime lord's almost supernatural prowess, so too will you be mesmerized by a lore that is completely captivating from beginning to end! *1995: Supporting Actor Discount Shopping essential video: Ever since this convoluted thriller dazzled audiences and critics in 1995 and won an Oscar for Christopher McQuarrie's twisting screenplay, The Usual Suspects has continued to divide movie lovers into opposite camps. While a lot of people take great pleasure from the movie's now-famous central mystery (namely, "Who is Keyser Söze?"), others aren't so easily impressed by a movie that's too enamored of its own cleverness to make much sense. After all, what are we to make of a final scene that renders the entire movie obsolete? Half the fun of The Usual Suspects is the debate it provokes and the sheer pleasure of watching its dynamic cast in action, led (or should we say, misled) by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey as the club-footed con man who recounts the saga of enigmatic Hungarian mobster Keyser Söze. Spacey's in a band of thieves that includes Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, and Benicio Del Toro, all gathered in a plot to steal a large shipment of cocaine. The story is told in flashback as a twisted plot being described by Spacey's character to an investigating detective (Chazz Palmintieri), and The Usual Suspects is enjoyable for the way it keeps the viewer guessing right up to its surprise ending. Whether that ending will enhance or extinguish the pleasure is up to each viewer to decide. Even if it ultimately makes little or no sense at all, this is a funny and fiendish thriller, guaranteed to entertain even its vocal detractors. --Jeff Shannon Discount Shopping: Ever since this convoluted thriller dazzled audiences and critics in 1995 and won an Oscar for Christopher McQuarrie's twisting screenplay, The Usual Suspects has continued to divide movie lovers into opposite camps. While a lot of people take great pleasure from the movie's now-famous central mystery (namely, "Who is Keyser Söze?"), others aren't so easily impressed by a movie that's too enamored of its own cleverness to make much sense. After all, what are we to make of a final scene that renders the entire movie obsolete? Half the fun of The Usual Suspects is the debate it provokes and the sheer pleasure of watching its dynamic cast in action, led (or should we say, misled) by Oscar winner Kevin Spacey as the club-footed con man who recounts the saga of enigmatic Hungarian mobster Keyser Söze. Spacey's in a band of thieves that includes Gabriel Byrne, Stephen Baldwin, Kevin Pollak, and Benicio Del Toro, all gathered in a plot to steal a large shipment of cocaine. The story is told in flashback as a twisted plot being described by Spacey's character to an investigating detective (Chazz Palmintieri), and The Usual Suspects is enjoyable for the way it keeps the viewer guessing right up to its surprise ending. Whether that ending will enhance or extinguish the pleasure is up to each viewer to decide. Even if it ultimately makes little or no sense at all, this is a funny and fiendish thriller, guaranteed to entertain even its vocal detractors. --Jeff Shannon Average Rating:
 Rating:  - The Usual Suspects - Blu-ray InfoVersion: U.S.A / Region A Aspect ratio: 2.35:1 MPEG-2 BD-50 Running time: 1:46:04 Movie size: 19,42 GB Disc size: 22,14 GB Average video bit rate: 18.82 Mbps DTS-HD Master Audio English 3738 kbps 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 3738kbps (DTS Core: 5.1 / 48kHz / 24-bit / 1536kbps) Dolby Digital Audio French 224 kbps 2.0 / 48kHz / 224kbps Dolby Digital Audio Spanish 224 kbps ... Read More Rating:  - Looking For Something Different? Check This Film Out!Before I offer any analysis of "The Usual Suspects", I would first like to say that (as is well know by now) the film has perhaps the most mind-blowing ending in the history of American Cinema. I have long been a fan of movies with endings that are shockers (The Sixth Sense and The Others stand out as favorites), but this movie took it to an entirely new level. I won't give away the ending here, but I will say that this film follows a narrative pattern such that guessing the "big reveal" ... Read More Rating: - Appreciate honesty and good business!My money was refunded, the seller sent me an email telling me that he felt that the movie was not of good quality and did not feel comfortable sending it. Rating:  - Half clever & rather ridiculous.Look, Mr. Super Criminal ("Soze") walks free smoking a cig at the end and we're supposed to think oh what a scary winner he is ...and he gets even with everybody..what a man.--However, aside from the fact that Soze has no friends and never will, some rich executives in the Carolinas have LEGALLY screwed him well and Soze is too dumb to know it.--I mean of course the cigarettes he buys from the tobacco companies and the heart disease/cancer he probably has.--The shareholders of Philip Morris Corp. must ... Read More Rating: - One surprise after another. I could never guess what's happening next, especially the ending. No wonder it got 2 Ocars in 1996It contains one surprise after another. I could never guess what's happening next, especially the ending. If you like a different story with unexpected turns. This is a MUST-SEE. The ony trouble is after you watch it once, the second time is not as suspenseful any more because you already know what's happening. No wonder it got 2 Ocars in 1996. One was given to Christopher McQuarrie for best screenplay. The other was given to Kevin Spacey for best supporing actor. ... Read More Browse for similar items by category:
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