SuperDeluxe wrote:Today I watched 'The Usual Suspects' for the third time (maybe even fourth). Always a treat. Then I learned that the movie almost didn't get made because the financial backers didn't think anyone in the cast had star power. (The cast: Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, Benicio del Toro, Kevin Pollack, Stephen Baldwin, Pete Postlethwaite...). Things only got back on track when Chazz Palminteri, who had a higher profile than the others at the time, signed on. Kevin Spacey's career took off immediately after.
It's one of those movies that usually comes to mind straight away if I'm asked "what's your favourite movie of all time?". It's definitely up there for me, but I think my opinion might be slightly coloured by the impact that the end/twist had the first time I saw it.