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Features: DVD, Uncut, Widescreen, Dolby Digital (5.1) EX, Commentary, Postcards, Deleted Scenes, Interviews, Trailers
Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) - a Wall Street yuppie obsessed with success, status and style - is also a serial killer who murders, rapes and mutilates both strangers and acquaintances without reason. A police detective is on his trail as Bateman's mask of studied, distant cool begins to fall apart.
Editor's Note
A cunning indictment of the materialism of the 1980s, AMERICAN PSYCHO is Mary Harron's (I SHOT ANDY WARHOL) and Guinevere Turner's (GO FISH) deft interpretation of the dark and violent Brett Easton Ellis novel of the same name. Christian Bale (VELVET GOLDMINE) plays Patrick Bateman, the personification of the "me" culture of Ronald Reagan's 1980s. Imprisoned in an inane corporate existence fueled by status symbols, small talk, and gossip, Bateman begins a bloody reign of terror on nearly all that cross his path. The film's gray and navy mise-en-scene is filled with chilly, vacant streets, hard-edged skyscrapers and cold interiors flecked with the latest technological gadgets and designer flourishes. Mary Harron's camera glides through these spaces with the undisturbed detachment of a shark. Bale is a razor sharp Bateman whose cool, predatory grace is only matched by the equally indifferent corporate world in which he lives. Even during its most hideous scene, when a naked, chain-saw-toting Bateman goes on a screaming rampage, AMERICAN PSYCHO manages to project a cold indifference that has terrifying undertones. Harron's film is a frightening denunciation of a consumer culture gone amuck with greed, materialism and a lack of nearly any charity whatsoever.
| Features | Audio: English Dolby Digital Stereo | | Cast & Crew Commentary | | Deleted Scenes | | Director /Writer Commentary | | Interactive Menus | | On-Set interviews And Behind-The-Scenes Footage | | Postcards From The '80s | | Previews | | Scene Selection | | Audio: English Dolby Digital 5.1 EX | | Widescreen Presentation |
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Release Information
| | Studio: Lions Gate |
| Release Date: 5/23/2006 |
| Running Time: 102 minutes |
| Original Release Date: 2000 | | Catalog ID: 17637 | | UPC: 00031398176374 | | Number of Discs: 1 |
Audio & Video
| | Original Language: English | | Available Audio Tracks: English | | Video: Color |
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| | Professional Reviews | Premiere
"...Dead-on, kitsch-free period detail and a wonderfully agitated performance by Bale..." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental | 10/01/2000 p.88Variety
"...A satire of conspicuous consumption..." 1/31-2/6/2000 p.34 Film Comment
"...A mordantly funny and agreeably blatant satire with genuinely subversive bite..." 03/01/2000 p.72 Sight and Sound
"...An ingenious adaptation....Excellent direction and a set of self-effacing performances..." 05/01/2000 p.42 Box Office
"...AMERICAN PSYCHO is really brilliant in the way it takes the viewer inside Bateman's world..." -- 4 out of 5 stars 04/01/2000 p.218 Entertainment Weekly
"[D]irector Mary Harron impressively mines the dark social comedy from this scathing satire of the 1980s." 06/24/2005 p.148 Film.com 7 of 10
...a suprisingly well-hewn distillation of [the novel's] sharpest insights...it's clear that Harron - Elizabeth Weitzman
James Berardinelli's ReelViews 8 of 10
...an effectively barbed satire of American morals and values, a blacker-than-black comedy that elic - James Berardinelli
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