American Psyco

American Psycho is a horror film releasing in the year 2000 directed Mary Harron based on the Bret Easton Ellis book of the same name. the movie is about Patrick batman (played by Christian bale) a NYC investment banker who lives a double life as a serial killer and Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, are also featured in the movie.

## Plot

the year is 1987 and patrick batman (Christian bale) is a young and wealthy NYC investment banker and spends his free time at fancing restaurants with his fiancee Evelyn Williams and a group of business associate's most of them he hates. one day patrick is at a meeting with his partners showing off their business cards when patrick is enraged of his partners card Paul Allen (Jared Leto) and invites him to dinner. at the dinner Patrick gets Paul drunk where paul mistakes Batmen for another coworker insulting him even more with comments about him and his fiancee. later patricks leads him to his apartment where he kills Allen with a axe while giveing a short review of the band Huey Lewis and the News in where saying "there early work was a little new wave for my taste, but when Sports came out in 83 i really think they came into their own commercially and artistically" the early work he is referencing is the band's first two albums Huey Lewis and the News, and Picture This in 1980 and 82. he then gives a review of their 4th album Fore!.

## American Psycho

### Premiere date

January 21, 2000 (Sundance)April 14, 2000 (United States)

### Written by

Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner, and Bret Easton Ellis

### Box Office

$34.3 million

Private investigator Donald Kimball interviews Bateman regarding Allen's disappearance. a few days later one of his partners, Luis Carruthers, reveal a new business card and then in a fit of jealousy he tries to strangle Luis in the bathrooms where Luis mistakes it as a romantic advance where Patrick panics and leaves. Kimball gets seconded interview with Bateman where after he invites his secretary, Jean, to his apartment for drinks where he attempts to shoot her with a nail gun but doesn't because he receives a message from Evelyn on his answering machine and desists. Kimball has lunch with Pat where the detective brings up the fact that one of Paul's friends killing him is impossible to which Bateman nervously smiles. later Patrick brings two girl to his apartment where he drugs and has sex with them later killing the first but the 2nd runs finding the corpses of his victims scattered across his apartment as Patrick chases her down with a chainsaw and drops it on her when she is running down the stairs, patrick later breaks up with Evelyn

One or Two days later Patrick is using a ATM where the ATM reads "FEED ME A STRAY CAT" where he picks up a cat next to him and attempts to shoot it where a lady stops him right before being shot. the cat doesn't die. a police chase starts where he shoots a policeman, a janitor, and a security guard as well blows up a car where he calls his lawyer giving hima confession of killing 20-40 people and eating some of them. again a day or two later jean finds graphic sketches of murders he has committed. batman's lawyer calls him laughing about the voicemail believing it to be a joke where batman deenies it again when his lawyer says he recently had dinner with Paul Allen. a confused batman returns to a meeting where he questions if his crimes where real or imaginary and he will never receive any punishment. His narration declares that he is in constant pain, that he wishes his pain inflicted on others, and that his confession means nothing.

## American Psycho 2

a director to home video movie was released in 2002 with no connection to the original except for the opening scene featuring the death of Patrick Batman.

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