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American Psycho (DVD)

Christian Bale (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor) and Mary Harron (director)

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Review

Variety, 1/31-2/6/2000, p.34, "...A satire of conspicuous consumption..."

Premiere, 10/01/2000, p.88, "...Dead-on, kitsch-free period detail and a wonderfully agitated performance by Bale..." -- 3 out of 5 stars - A Satisfying Rental

Film Comment, 03/01/2000, p.72, "...A mordantly funny and agreeably blatant satire with genuinely subversive bite..."

Sight and Sound, 05/01/2000, p.42, "...An ingenious adaptation....Excellent direction and a set of self-effacing performances..."

Entertainment Weekly, 06/24/2005, p.148, "[D]irector Mary Harron impressively mines the dark social comedy from this scathing satire of the 1980s."

Box Office, 04/01/2000, p.218, "...AMERICAN PSYCHO is really brilliant in the way it takes the viewer inside Bateman's world..." -- 4 out of 5 stars

Title Note

Released theatrically April 14, 2000

Filmed in New York City and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Leonardo DiCaprio, an early consideration for the role of Patrick Bateman, decided to star in THE BEACH instead.

To clean the movie up and acheive a relatively mild R-rating, the producers excised approximately eighteen seconds of footage from a menage-a-trois scene featuring an emotionally detached Patrick Bateman and two women (one of whom was co-writer Guinevere Turner).

The song "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina & The Waves, which runs during the establishing shots of New York City and Wall Street, makes an ironic reference to Michael J. Fox's THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS, which also features the song.

While working out, Patrick Bateman watches Tobe Hooper's TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Several scenes later he pursues a victim with a chainsaw.

Huey Lewis, objecting to the violence of AMERICAN PSYCHO, insisted producers remove his song "Hip To Be Square" from the official soundtrack album.

Release Note

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 16:9
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentaries - 1. Mary Harron - Director/Writer, Guenivere Turner - Star/Writer
2. Cast & Crew
Deleted Scenes
Production Interviews - Various
Featurettes - 1. Postcards From the 80's
2. "American Psycho - From Book to Screen"
3. Video Essay - Holly Willis
Trailers:
Original Theatrical Trailer
Bonus Trailers

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Unedited
Anamorphic Widescreen - 1.78
Letterbox - 1.85
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Deleted Scenes
Trailers: Original Theatrical Trailer
Production Interviews: Various
Audio Commentary:
1. Mary Harron - Director/Writer, Guenivere Turner - Star/Writer
2. Cast & Crew
Featurette:
1. Postcards From the 80's
2. "American Psycho - From Book to Screen"
3. Video Essay - Holly Willis

Product Notes

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.

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Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie, obsessed with success, status and style, with a stunning fiancee (Reese Wi therspoon). He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on the controversial novel, the film offers a sharp satire to the dark side of yuppie culture in the '80s, while se tting forth a vision that is both terrifying and chilling.

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5 out of 5 stars be afraid, be very afraid...yet curisouly curious, August 1, 2008
By bale fan
Christian Bale is fantastic in this movie (like most of the others hes in). One of the best of 2000. A must see, but not with your KIDS!

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