American Psycho: Book vs. Movie
Mary Harron’s 2000 film American Psycho is adapted from Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel. Patrick Bateman maintains the appearance of a successful Manhattan banker while concealing a life of violence.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Bret Easton Ellis
- Year
- 1991
- Pages
- 399Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 16 hr 29 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Pablo Schreiber
Patrick Bateman narrates a Manhattan life organized around designer labels, exclusive restaurants, and the constant appraisal of other people’s wealth. His meticulous accounts of clothes and pop music give way to descriptions of increasingly extreme violence, while the acquaintances around him remain absorbed in the same rituals of status and consumption.
- Director
- Mary Harron
- Writer
- Mary Harron, Guinevere Turner
- Year
- 2000
- Runtime
- 1 hr 42 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Josh Lucas, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny, Justin Theroux
- Genre
- black comedy, comedy horror, Crime, Drama, slasher, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Investment banker Patrick Bateman measures himself against colleagues who seem almost interchangeable, nursing violent jealousy over their clothes, reservations, and business cards. When a colleague disappears and a detective starts asking questions, Bateman’s carefully groomed public identity becomes harder to reconcile with the brutal acts he hides behind it.
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