No backyard project this: it cost $6 million and had familiar actors (Kevin Spacey, Gabriel Byrne, a Baldwin) in its cast. The movie was shown at Sundance, thought not in the official competition (which The Brothers McMullen won). But everybody paid attention to Christopher McQuarrie’s canny, knotty script — about five guys on a heist and a mysterious overlord named Keyser Soze — because it ran cool twists on classic Hollywood crime films. McQuarrie and Spacey earned Oscars, Benicio del Toro stepped into the limelight with his mumbles routine, and director Bryan Singer was off on a blockbuster career: X-Men, Superman Returns, Valkyrie.
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