The Usual Suspects (1995) Director: Bryan Singer Screenwriter: Christopher McQuarrie The Usual Suspects may seem

like a simple whodunit film after the first five minutes. But McQuarries vibrant storytelling of this crime-thriller through the frame of Verbal Kints (Kevin Spacey) testimony to U.S Customs agent, Kujan (Chazz Palminteri), Combined with Singers visually dynamic links and hints between the overarching interaction between the two add together to create a masterpiece with a twist ending that stays with the you for days. The budget for this film was a mere $6 million, very small when compared to Kevin Costner's Waterworld, a record waste of $200 million that features villains on jet skis doing postmodern Esther Williams water ballets. The box office for this film saw a gross of $23,272,306 in the US alone.

Gross $1,120,000 (USA) (20 August 1995) $23,272,306 (USA) 2,503,343 (UK) (12 September 1995) Weekend Gross $645,363 (USA) (20 August 1995) (42 Screens) Admissions 1,041,632 (France) (3 October 1995) 342,472 (Germany) (31 December 1996) 152,002 (Netherlands) (31 December 1997) 151,527 (Netherlands) (1 January 1997) 218,342 (Spain)
The film was produced by: PolyGram Filmed Entertainment (presents) Spelling Films International (presents) Blue Parrot Bad Hat Harry Productions (as Bad Hat Harry) Rosco Film GmbH The target audience for this film was the USA, as the film had a distributor specifically based in the US for their 2005 theatrical release (Gramercy Pictures). Then Polygram filmed entertainment for the rest of the world.