American Psycho


Release Information: January 21, 2000; Sundance, Park City UT; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); January 21, 2000; Sundance, Park City UT; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); April 14, 2000; Sundance, Park City UT; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); April 14, 2000; Sundance, Park City UT; Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); January 21, 2000; Canada and US (The version released in the US was cut slightly.); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); January 21, 2000; Canada and US (The version released in the US was cut slightly.); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); April 14, 2000; Canada and US (The version released in the US was cut slightly.); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC); April 14, 2000; Canada and US (The version released in the US was cut slightly.); Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

Budget: Budget: $10,000,000

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Executive Producer: Michael Paseornek; Michael Paseornek; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Jeff Sackman; Joseph Drake

102 minutes, 1999

Manhattan, 1987. Patrick Bateman, a 27-year-old Wall Street broker, spends most of his time and substantial income on clothes, dining and clubing. Notionally engaged to Evelyn Williams, he is having an affair with Courtney Rawlinson, the fiancée of his colleague Luis Carruthers. An avid consumer of drugs, pornography and prostitutes, Bateman fantasises murdering friends, rivals and strangers. Upstaged at a board-room meeting by his colleague Paul Allen, Bateman works off his frustration by knifing a street-sleeper and later contrives to murder Allen with an axe. He lets himself into Allen's apartment and re-records the answering-machine message to say that Allen has gone to London. But when private investigator Donald Kimball begins enquiring into Allen's disappearance, Bateman grows nervous. Events spiral out of control, at least in his mind. An attempt on the life of Carruthers (who is gay) is misinterpreted as an expression of closeted affection. He is deflected from murdering his secretary Jean when Evelyn calls at the crucial moment. A threesome in Allen's apartment with his friend Elizabeth and prostitute Christie turns into a chaotic bloodbath in which both women die. The shooting of an interfering old woman leads to a police chase through the night streets; Bateman kills a cop and at least two others before hiding in his office and calling his lawyer to confess everything. But when he next visits Allen's apartment he finds it being redecorated and up for sale. In Bateman's absence, Jean checks his private diary and finds doodled evidence of his psychosis. Bateman runs into his lawyer (who takes him for someone else) and learns that Paul Allen is indeed in London.

Source: Library and Archives Canada - Canadian Feature Film Database (LAC)

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