Stars: Charlotte Gainsbourg, Gabriel Byrne, Sean Bean, Naomi Watts, Kevin Spacey, Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Sean Penn, Stephen Baldwin, Natascha McElhone, Kevin Pollak, Stellan Skarsgaard, Benicio Del Toro

Director: John Frankenheimer

Summary: Features the films: 21 GRAMS, RONIN and THE USUAL SUSPECTS

Features the films: 21 GRAMS, RONIN and THE USUAL SUSPECTS


21 GRAMS – Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu (AMORES PERROS) directs this staggeringly intense drama concerning three families whose lives fatefully intertwine through a series of tragic events. With jumbled chronology that jumps from one shocking event to the next in an increasingly chaotic maelstrom, 21 GRAMS is relentlessly gritty in its content and its aesthetics. The title refers to the amount of weight that a human body loses at the moment death arrives, but the story begs the question How much is gained.


RONIN – David Mamet wrote this screenplay under the name Richard Weisz, as a gun for hire, much like the master-less samurai of the film's title, who roamed Japan in the 19th century, loyal only to themselves. A group of men with highly developed skills are called to a meeting in a deserted warehouse in Paris. Sam (Robert De Niro), an American, may be ex-CIA, Vincent (Jean Reno), the terminally cool Frenchman, Russian computer whiz Gregor (Stellan Skarsgaard), presumably ex-KGB, Spence (Sean Bean), a British demolitions man, and Larry (Skipp Suddith), another Yank, round out the team. They've been hired by the IRA, through liaison Deirdre (Natascha McElhone), to steal a briefcase of unknown contents somewhere in Europe. As the unit races from one spectacular location on the French Riviera to another, the Tec-9 reigns, the body count mounts, some Russian gangsters get into the act, and the betrayals come fast.


THE USUAL SUSPECTS – Director Bryan Singer's labyrinthine crime drama centres on five career criminals (played by Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Benicio Del Toro, Kevin Pollak, and Stephen Baldwin) who meet after being rounded up for a standard police line-up. Upon their release, the men band together to pull off an intricate heist involving $3 million worth of emeralds. Their success brings them to the attention of the enigmatic Keyser Soze, an unseen, nefarious, and mythic underworld crime figure who coerces them into pulling off an important and highly dangerous job. The scenes that follow make THE USUAL SUSPECTS one of the most fascinating crime thrillers in cinema history.

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Main Language:	English
Region:	Region 2
Release Date:	June 8, 2009
Runtime:	347 minutes
Certification:
Catalogue Number:	4239201071
Keywords:	Suspects, English, General, Usual, Thriller, Ronin, Grams
Genre:	Thriller