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American Psycho[Widescreen Subtitle AC3 Dolby Dts] - Blu-ray Disc

SKU: 7976862 | Release Date: 2/6/2007

Rating: NR for Sexual Situations, Graphic Violence, Nudity, Sexual Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse (Alcohol, Drugs), Rape & Sexual Abuse

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Rating: NR for Sexual Situations, Graphic Violence, Nudity, Sexual Violence, Not For Children, Profanity, Substance Abuse (Alcohol, Drugs), Rape & Sexual Abuse
Format: Blu-ray Disc
Theatrical Release: 2000
Length: 102 minutes
Screen Formats: Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV
Genre: Dark Comedies
Studio: Lionsgate
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Other Formats: DVD (Widescreen Collector's Uncut) - $4.99

Synopsis

Bret Easton Ellis's dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with black comic overtones. Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), the son of a wealthy Wall Street financier, is pursuing his own lucrative career with his father's firm. Bateman is the prototypical yuppie, obsessed with success, fashion, and style. He is also a serial killer who murders, rapes, and mutilates both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or reason. Donald Kimble (Willem Dafoe), a police detective, questions Bateman about the disappearance of Paul Allen (Jared Leto), whom Patrick murdered several days earlier. As Kimble stays on Bateman's trail, Bateman's mask of studied, distant cool begins to fall apart. American Psycho also features Reese Witherspoon as Bateman's girlfriend, as well as Samantha Mathis, Chloe Sevigny, and Guinevere Turner; the latter also co-authored the screenplay. Controversy followed the production from the start, when speculation that Leonardo Di Caprio would play Bateman sparked concerns that he would lure preteens to an R-rated movie. Di Caprio soon bowed out of the project, and original leading man Bale was reinstated. Later, a group of Toronto residents attempted to block filming in that city after Canadian serial killer Paul Bernardo claimed that Ellis' novel inspired his murder spree. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

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Digital Theater Systems (akin to 5.1)

Languages/Sound

Eng

Screen Formats

Enhanced Widescreen for 16x9 TV

Subtitle Languages

Eng/Spa

Additional Features

1080p high definition 16x9 widescreen version DTS HD audio 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX audio English and Spanish subtitles Deleted scenes with optional director commentary Audio commentary with Mary Harmon Audio commentary with writer Guinevere Turner The '80s: Downtown

Chapters

Disc #1 -- American Psycho
1. VIP Treatment
2. Fitting In
3. Detail Oriented
4. Reaching Out
5. Dinner Meeting
6. Topic of Discussion
7. Routine Stop
8. Not Finished Yet
9. Something Sweet
10. Keeping Control
11. Not Like Last Time
12. The Break Up
13. Animal Instincts
14. Strange Findings
15. Rough Day At the Office
16. On the Inside

Cast

Christian Bale - Patrick Bateman
Samantha Mathis - Courtney Rawlinson
Cara Seymour - Christie
Bill Sage - David Van Patten
Joshua Lucas - Craig McDermott
Matt Ross - Luis Carruthers
Guinevere Turner - Elizabeth
Chloe Sevigny - Jean
Willem Dafoe - Donald Kimball
Reese Witherspoon - Evelyn Williams
Justin Theroux - Timothy Bryce
Jared Leto - Paul Allen
Chlo� Sevigny - Jean
Josh Lucas - Craig McDermott

Crew

Editor: Andrew Marcus
Executive Producer: Michael Paseornek
Costume Designer: Isis Mussenden
Musical Direction/Supervision: Barry Cole
Producer: Edward R. Pressman
Musical Direction/Supervision: Randall Poster
Executive Producer: Jeff Sackman
Cinematographer: Andrzej Sekula
Casting: Billy Hopkins ,Suzanne Smith
Screenwriter: Guinevere Turner
Co-producer: Clifford Streit
Casting: Kerry Barden
Producer: Christian Halsey Solomon
Production Designer: Gideon Ponte
Art Director: Andrew Stearn
Co-producer: Joe Drake
Executive Producer: Joe Drake
Co-producer: Ernie Barbaresh
Composer (Music Score): John Cale ,Danny Elfman
Producer: Chris Hanley
Director: Mary Harron
Screenwriter: Mary Harron
Sound Effects Editor: David McCallum
Art Director: Andrew M. Stearn
Book Author: Bret Easton Ellis
Screenwriter: Bret Easton Ellis

American Psycho: AMG Review
Karl Williams , AMG

The greed, cynicism and selfishness of the '80s young urban professional got a ribbing in the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, the Gen-X scribe's answer to author Tom Wolfe's broader The Bonfire of the Vanities (it's no coincidence that the main character of Ellis' novel works for the same, aptly titled firm, Pierce and Pierce, that employed the protagonist of Bonfire). In the hands of independent director Mary Harron, however, Ellis' novel becomes something else entirely: a feminist treatise on the misogyny and vanity of men. Although not totally eschewing the bloody violence of her source material, Harron finds creative ways to ignore most of the gore and focuses instead on the rampaging self-absorption of Patrick Bateman (Christian Bale), a Wall Street shark so devoid of feeling that even he describes himself as not having "a single identifiable human emotion." Harron's interpretation of Bateman and Bale's icy, aloof performance are at odds with some of the film's dialogue, however: a gallows humor that doesn't fit is revealed when Bateman tells a woman not that he's in mergers and acquisitions but "murders and executions." As well as this dissonance between the Bateman who's seen and the one who's heard, a jarring conclusion leaves open to interpretation the reality of the tale's events, an element that vexed many readers of Ellis' novel. Harron keeps the book's tongue-in-cheek humor and body count but does not fix any of the book's problems, even compounding some of them by changing the focus of the tale away from period social satire, an artistic choice that negatively affects the coherence of the adaptation. ~ Karl Williams, All Movie Guide

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