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The Usual Suspects(1995)
Released
1995 · FILM

The Usual Suspects

A physically disabled con artist is drawn into a deadly heist with a legendary criminal, where every move is a trap and every ally may be a liar.

“Five criminals. One line up. No coincidence.”

Directed by
Bryan Singer
Written by
Christopher Mcquarrie
Rated
MPA · R
Runtime
106 min
CrimeDramaMystery

Synopsis

In an interrogation room in Los Angeles, Verbal Kint tries to persuade federal agents that a legendary criminal figure named Keyser Soze exists and was responsible for involving him and his four accomplices in a multi‑million‑dollar robbery that culminated in an explosion at San Pedro harbor, which left only a few survivors. He entices the investigators with an elaborate account of the crime lord.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

A crew of 41+ credited

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by John OttmanShot by Newton Thomas SigelDesigned by Howard Cummings

Box Office

1995 · Box office

✅ Made its money back — grossed 3.9× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$23.3M

Budget$6.0M
Worldwide gross$23.3M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $645K — 3% of its US run. It had legs — it kept earning long after opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $1.1M — 5% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 42 theaters

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Also known as

  • Die üblichen Verdächtigende
  • Sospechosos habitualeses
  • Usual Suspectsfr
  • I soliti sospettiit

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