American Psycho (2000) movie poster

American Psycho (2000)

"Killer looks."
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👍 89%Google users liked it ⓘ
Critics Score
🎬 66%
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Director
Mary Harron
Runtime
1h 42m
Rated
R
Country
Canada, United States of America
Language
English
TMDB Rating
7.4/10 (12,075 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes
68%
Metacritic
64

Cast

Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman · 76% avg
Justin Theroux as Timothy Bryce · 69% avg
Josh Lucas as Craig McDermott · 69% avg
Bill Sage as David Van Patten · 65% avg
Chloë Sevigny as Jean · 67% avg
Reese Witherspoon as Evelyn Williams · 70% avg
Samantha Mathis as Courtney Rawlinson · 71% avg
Matt Ross as Luis Carruthers · 77% avg

Is American Psycho good?

Yes. 89% of real audiences liked it, by Google's archived audience score. Critics scored it lower at 66%, but audiences disagreed.

Where it ranks on ThumbScore

Rank in its genre
#84 / 2223 · Thriller
Rank in its year
#12 / 122 · 2000

By audience score, among films with 500 or more votes.

Overview

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies. Wikipedia ↗

About the Film

American Psycho is a 2000 American satirical psychological thriller directed by Mary Harron, based on Bret Easton Ellis's controversial 1991 novel. Christian Bale stars as Patrick Bateman, a wealthy, handsome Wall Street investment banker in 1980s Manhattan who leads a double life as a serial killer. By day, Bateman obsesses over business cards, designer clothing, restaurant reservations, and maintaining his perfect physical appearance; by night, he indulges in escalating acts of violence that may or may not be actually happening.

Mary Harron's adaptation brilliantly transformed the novel's graphic horror into pitch-black satire, using Bateman's meticulously detailed narration of his skincare routine and Phil Collins album reviews as darkly comedic counterpoint to his murderous confession. Christian Bale's performance was a revelation — his gleaming, hollow-eyed Bateman, with his maniacal grin and reflexive social pleasantries masking absolute emptiness, became one of the defining portrayals of sociopathy in cinema and launched Bale as a leading man. The film's deliberately ambiguous ending — leaving viewers uncertain whether Bateman actually committed the murders or merely fantasized about them — was a commentary on the dehumanizing conformity of yuppie culture, where people are so interchangeable that a serial killer can confess and literally nobody cares.

The business card scene, in which Bateman and his colleagues compare their nearly identical cards with escalating anxiety, became one of the most quoted and memed scenes of its era. American Psycho earned $34 million worldwide on a $7 million budget and has grown into a major cult classic.

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