American Psycho (2000)

American Psycho rating: IMDb, Rotten Tomatoes and Metacritic

IMDb7.6/10· 827K votes

Rotten Tomatoes69%

Metacritic64%

TMDb7.406/10· 12K votes

With 69% on Rotten Tomatoes, backed by 7.6/10 on IMDb and 64/100 on Metacritic, critical reception of this film has been mixed.

About American Psycho

A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

Cast of American Psycho

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  Christian Bale

  as Patrick Bateman

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  Justin Theroux

  as Timothy Bryce

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  Josh Lucas

  as Craig McDermott

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  Bill Sage

  as David Van Patten

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  Chloë Sevigny

  as Jean

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  Reese Witherspoon

  as Evelyn Williams

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  Samantha Mathis

  as Courtney Rawlinson

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  Matt Ross

  as Luis Carruthers

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  Jared Leto

  as Paul Allen

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  Willem Dafoe

  as Donald Kimball

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  Cara Seymour

  as Christie

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  Guinevere Turner

  as Elizabeth

American Psycho facts

Budget

$7M

Box office

$34.3M

Collection

American Psycho Collection

Our take on American Psycho

Mary Harron's 2000 film is a crime-drama-thriller with a razor-sharp satirical edge, centered on a wealthy New York investment banker who hides a psychopathic alternate self from his colleagues and friends. As he sinks deeper into illogical, gratuitous fantasies, the film skewers the vanity, status obsession and hollow surfaces of 1980s corporate culture. Harron keeps the tone coolly ironic, so the horror doubles as a savage joke about a man who is all image and no interior. It suits viewers who like their thrillers stylish, uncomfortable and thick with black comedy rather than straightforward scares. Sleek and disquieting, it lingers as social critique as much as menace.