Producer Edward R. Pressman bought the film rights to Bret Easton Ellis's novel American Psycho in 1992, with Johnny Depp expressing an interest in the lead role. After discussions with Troma Films' Stuart Gordon to direct fell through, David Cronenberg became attached and brought Ellis to adapt the novel into a screenplay. The process was difficult for Ellis, due to Cronenberg's scene constraints and not wanting to use any of Ellis's restaurant or nightclub material from the novel. The script ended with an elaborate musical sequence to Barry Manilow's "Daybreak" atop the World Trade Center. "I'm glad it wasn't shot, but that kind of shows you where I was when I was writing the script," Ellis reflected. "I was bored with the material." Cronenberg was still listed as being attached to direct in March 1994, but with a new script by Norman Snider.
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American Psycho
(2000)14
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Runtime | 1 hr 42 min |
Budget | $7 000 000 |
Premiere: World | $34 266 679 April 13, 2000 |
USA | $15 070 285 |
Other countries | $19 196 394 |
Box Office – Budget | $27 266 679 |
Premiere: USA | $15 070 285 April 14, 2000 |
theaters | 1242 |
rollout | 262 days |
Digital: World | September 14, 2019 |
Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Alcohol, Drugs & Smoking, Profanity, Violence & Gore, ..., Sex & Nudity |
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A wealthy New York City investment banking executive, Patrick Bateman, hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he delves deeper into his violent, hedonistic fantasies.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 14
If all of Ellis’s characters more or less stay the same, Harron’s film suggests that, like the '80s, Bateman to shall pass.
Bale’s cool, clinically detached freak show is fun to watch, and disturbing too.
It’s hard to summon up enthusiasm for a performance so rooted in bloody banality. I mean, as Patrick, Bale’s most emotionally pres...
It represents one of the most daring, inventive, and invigorating movies to reach the screen during the dreary first half of 2000.
Christian Bale is heroic in the way he allows the character to leap joyfully into despicability; there is no instinct for self-preservation here, a...
Just doesn’t make the case that this book was worth filming.
At once a sharp satire and an earnest study in the deadly consequences of moral vacancy.
Harron can’t find an angle, therefore a reason, to have made a film of this book – beyond the simple fact that she could.
Conceptually, this savage cartoon ends up as trapped in surfaces as its shallow antihero: it’s all dressed up with nowhere to go.
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Great acting, especially Bale, he just lived the role. But the ending is a little blurry and the message of the film is not entirely clear. Otherwise, an excellent film from the category of "once to see" Translated to English
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Amazing character study. Christian Bale’s acting is yummy. And the very concept of complete inhumanity without punishment and therefore without exit, without conclusion, without development… Very successful for its time. Translated to English
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Christian Bale. Film adaptation of the novel by Bret Easton Ellis. Patrick Bateman is a respectable, attractive, well-groomed young man who holds a good position and owns a luxury apartment in a New York high-rise. Who will understand what he is hiding under this luxurious mask? Translated to English
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Bale is incredible, he is so funny and scary at the same time here. Eternal respect to the director for such a stylish genre combo in a film about madness. The film funnily throws the viewer on different swings of perception of a confident (or not quite) one handsome CEO. Translated to English
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Again, the film is made by the actors, you just want not to miss a second of their performance. Translated to English
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Seemed rather one-sided. Well, what is it like to wait the entire film for the scene of the conversation between Dafoe and Bale in the club and find out that it was cut Translated to English
I rewatched it the other day, one of those that I almost forgot, but it’s definitely possible)) Our society, environment, and the reproach in the film, of course, to him and general indifference, has not gotten better for a minute since the 2000s. Of the 2 ending theories, I stick to the safe one for the main character, it’s not a fact that it’s not worse. Translated to English
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From a psychological point of view, the film is really cool and difficult for me, that’s for sure. But I don’t regret that I saw a lot of interesting things and how they showed it. Translated to English
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After this film, Christian Bale did not think that he could become a meme and go down in history, but besides this, he was clearly preparing for this role and got used to it 100%. It’s nice to watch and watch the actor, I would really like to see a remake in a new wrapper , not a continuation of Kunis Translated to English
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Here’s Johnny! Oops, wrong movie. Yes, Bale, of course, is still a charming, seductive devil. A real psycho! Here you don’t need to write a comment, but watch the film, because… he is from the category of "it’s better to see once." Welcome) Translated to English
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I think the film is too overrated. Yes, there are scenes where Bale is simply insane, but otherwise the film left a lot of questions. After watching it, I said, "What did I just watch?" o_0 The ending is also strange. The film is definitely mediocre. It’s not a tower, 100%. IMHO. Translated to English
There are three favorite films in the top, but 9 because Patrick’s "fall" outside of reality is not fully revealed. Insanity is a spectrum. "Everyone’s idea of Patrick Bateman is just an abstraction. In fact, it’s not me. It’s just a ghost. Illusion." Translated to English
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I watched it for the first time. A film about a dark personality hidden deep within each of us. The film is good, and its ending explains everything, but honestly I wouldn’t give it more than 7 points. But now it’s Batman who beats the Joker, and the Green Goblin is investigating everything, cool. Translated to English