Patrick Bateman is twenty-six. He works on Wall St. He is charming, handsome, rich, successful . . . and one of the most vicious killers in history.
"American Psycho" is a funhouse mirror held up against modern culture. It is a nightmare cityscape of extremities - the high glamour of designer labels and cocktail parties on the surface, and a writhing mass of violence rotting it at the core.
Now, the most controversial book of the last decade is the most controversial film of 2000. Starring Christian Bale as Bateman, it includes a stellar cast of Hollywood's hottest actors including Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Chlo Sevigny and Jared Leto.