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American Psycho
Bret Easton Ellis' dark and violently disturbing novel
about a serial killer is brought to the screen. Patrick Bateman
(Christian Bale) has a successful career with his father's Wall Street
firm and is the stereotypical yuppie, obsessed with a materialistic
world. Patrick is also a serial killer who slaughters both strangers and
acquaintances without provocation or reason. Donald Kimble (Willem Dafoe),
a police detective, suppects Bateman's responsibility for the
disappearance of Paul Allen (Jared Leto), whom Patrick had indeed killed
a few days earlier. As Kimble stays on Bateman's trail, Bateman's mask
of studied, distant cool begins to fall apart. |