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Now a significant film from Lion's Gate Films starring Christian Bale (Metroland), Chloe Sevigny (The Final Days of Disco), Jared Leto (My So-Called Life), and Reese Witherspoon (Cruel Intentions), and directed by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol).In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence within our time or every other. Patrick Bateman moves one of the young and trendy in 1980s Manhattan. Young, attractive, and well-educated, Bateman makes his fortune on-wall Street by day while spending his nights with techniques we can not start to comprehend. Expressing his true self through torture and murder, Bateman prefigures an apocalyptic horror that no society could bear to confront.