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American Psycho

Item number (ISN):

311367

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

1999-02-28/1999-04-23

Item number (ISN):

311367

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Record information – Details

Fonds/collection:

LIONS GATE FILMS

Accession:

2001-0127

Media:

Film

Original title:

American Psycho

Part:

5 of 5

Production date:

1999-02-28/1999-04-23

Release date:

2000-04-14

Production company:

Lions Gate Films
MUSE Productions

Production credit:

director/scenario, Mary Harron; producer, Edward R. Pressman; Chris Hanley; Christian Halsey Solomon; executive producer, Michael Paseornek; Jeff Sackman; Joseph Drake; scenario, Guinevere Turner; photography, Adrzej Sekula; sound, Henry Embry; editing Andrew Marcus; music, John Cale

Cast credit:

Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner, Reese Witherspoon, Stephen Bogaert, Monika Meier; Reg E. Cathey, Blair Williams, Marie Dame, Kelley Harron, Patricia Gage

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Lions Gate Films

Description:

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Manhattan, 1987. Patrick Bateman, a 27-year-old Wall Street broker, spends most of his time and substantial income on clothes, dining and clubbing. 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 fantasizes about 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. <101mn 59s>

Language:

English

Notes:

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1. The running time is based on the measured length of the archives' master print.~2. First shown 2000-01-21 at the Sundance Festival, Park City, Utah.~3. Based on the book by Bret Easton Ellis.~4. Shot in Toronto (seven weeks) and New York (six days).~5. Description from Sight and Sound, May 2000, page 42.~6. The version released in the US was cut slightly.

Genre:

HORROR

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

345643

Format:

FILM

Location number:

2000-03-0264
2000-03-0265
2000-03-0266
2000-03-0267
2000-03-0268

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

COMP

Stock:

REL PRT

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1149921

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

2000-03-0264-DPX
2000-03-0265-DPX
2000-03-0266-DPX
2000-03-0267-DPX
2000-03-0268-DPX

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

SIL

Duration:

101:59

Made from:

2000-03-0264
2000-03-0265
2000-03-0266
2000-03-0267
2000-03-0268

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1149924

Format:

SOUND

Location number:

2000-03-0264.WAV
2000-03-0265.WAV
2000-03-0266.WAV
2000-03-0267.WAV
2000-03-0268.WAV

Number of items:

5

Kind of sound:

BWF

Duration:

101:59

Made from:

2000-03-0264
2000-03-0265
2000-03-0266
2000-03-0267
2000-03-0268

Status:

MASTER
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