American Psycho (2000)

Release date: 2000-04-14
Country: USA|Canada
Language: English|Spanish|Cantonese
Director: Mary Harron
Production Co: Am Psycho Productions, Edward R. Pressman Film, Lions Gate Films
Genre: Drama, Crime
Rating: 7.6/10
Length: 1h 41min

Storyline

Patrick Bateman is handsome, well educated and intelligent. He is twenty-seven and living his own American dream. He works by day on Wall Street, earning a fortune to complement the one he was born with. At night he descends into madness, as he experiments with fear and violence.

Plot Keywords

narcissism, materialism, serial murder, 1980s, violence, business card, chainsaw, new york city, male rear nudity, cannibalism, satire, premarital sex, female nudity, male nudity, hedonism, wealth, f rated, cocaine snorting, sociopath, killed during sex

Short Review

The slick satire cleverly equates materialism, narcissism, misogyny, and classism with homicide, but you may laugh so loud at the protagonist that you won't be able to hear yourself laughing with him.