American Psycho
Leaving February 28
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1h 41m
Directed by Mary Harron • 2000 • United States, Canada
Starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto
With an iconically unhinged performance from Christian Bale and an audacious blend of grisly violence and subversive black comedy, director Mary Harron turned Bret Easton Ellis’s notorious bestseller into a modern cinematic cult classic—a by turns chilling and fearlessly funny satire of the materialism, misogyny, and existential nothingness of corporate hustle culture. Uber-yuppie Patrick Bateman (Bale) is a young, handsome, Harvard-educated Wall Street success, with a beautiful fiancée (Reese Witherspoon) and an entourage of high-powered friends. But behind the Valentino suits and meticulously designed business cards lurk violent, sociopathic impulses that the increasingly disturbed Bateman may no longer be able to control.
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