American psycho [DVD] / an Edward R. Pressman production.
Material type:
FilmPublisher number: 17637 | Lions Gate Home EntertainmentPublication details: [United States] : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2005]Edition: uncut version ; widescreen.with deleted scenes, on set interviews and trailerDescription: 1 DVD (102 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 inUniform titles: - American psycho (Motion picture)
- DVD 410A
- Cinematographer, Andrzej Sekula ; editor, Andrew Marcus ; music, John Cale ; costume designer, Isis Mussenden ; production designer, Gideon Ponte ; director of photography, Andrzej Sekula.
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Bret Easton Ellis's dark and violent satire of America in the 1980s is brought to the screen in this unsettling drama with blackly 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's novel inspired his murder spree. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
"Uncut version."
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Cinematographer, Andrzej Sekula ; editor, Andrew Marcus ; music, John Cale ; costume designer, Isis Mussenden ; production designer, Gideon Ponte ; director of photography, Andrzej Sekula.
Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Samantha Mathis, Matt Ross, Bill Sage, Chloë Sevigny, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner, Reese Witherspoon.
A young, handsome man with a Harvard education and success on Wall Street has terrible urges that take him in pursuit of women, greed, and murder.
rated 18. (rated R for strong violence, sexuality, drug use and language).
DVD, NTSC; region 1, widescreen presentation; Dolby Digital.