American psycho / [videorecording] Lions Gate Films presents ; an Edward R. Pressman production ; in association with Muse Productions and Christian Halsey Solomon ; a Mary Harron film ; produced by Edward R. Pressman, Chris Hanley, Christian Halsey Solomon ; screenplay by Mary Harron & Guinevere Turner ; directed by Mary Harron.
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FilmPublisher number: 1009979017637 | Lions Gate Home EntertainmentLanguage: English Original language: English Subtitle language: English, Spanish Publisher: Santa Monica, California : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Edition: Killer collector's edition; Uncut version; Widescreen versionDescription: 1 videodisc (102 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 inContent type: - two-dimensional moving image
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- Cinematographer, Andrzej Sekula ; editor, Andrew Marcus ; music, John Cale ; costume designer, Isis Mussenden ; production designer, Gideon Ponte.
| Item type | Current library | Collection | Shelving location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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| DVD | Phillipsburg Free Public Library | DVDs | New Movies | DVD AME | Available | 36748002627786 |
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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
Wide screen (2.35:1 aspect ratio); enhanced for 16:9 televisions.
Based on the novel by Bret Easton Ellis.
Originally produced as a motion picture in 2000.
Special features: audio commentary with Mary Harron; audio commentary with Guinevere Turner; deleted scenes; American psycho: book to screen (the book; the deal; the film; The pornography of killing: an essay by Holly Willis); cast and crew commentary; The '80s: downtown; tv spots and trailers; trailer gallery.
Cinematographer, Andrzej Sekula ; editor, Andrew Marcus ; music, John Cale ; costume designer, Isis Mussenden ; production designer, Gideon Ponte.
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.
Not rated by the MPAA (edited version was rated R for strong violence, sexuality, drug use and language).
DVD; NTSC; region 1; 5.1 Dolby Digital Surround EX.
In English with optional English or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.