Beyond the Sea (film) Fowler, died of brain cancer just before production started. "I made the movie for all mothers, but especially for my mother. She introduced me to Bobby Darin. When she got very ill in 2002, I stopped everything and took care of her. We constantly played Bobby Darin records, and I'd let her listen to the tracks I was recording. I'm glad she passed knowing this was the movie I was going to make." After his award-winning performances in "The Usual Suspects" and "American Beauty", Spacey "chose to move away from dark, sarcastic characters, and instead play damaged but good-hearted men"
Bryan Singer Bryan Singer Bryan Jay Singer (born September 17, 1965) is an American director, producer, and writer of film and television. He is the founder of Bad Hat Harry Productions and has produced or co-produced almost all of the films he has directed. Singer wrote and directed his first film in 1988 after graduating from university. His next film, "Public Access" (1993), was a co-winner of the Grand Jury Prize at the 1993 Sundance Film Festival. In the mid-1990s, Singer received critical acclaim for directing the neo-noir crime thriller "The Usual Suspects" (1995), which starred Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, Stephen Baldwin,