American Psycho Hookers Scene

FILM DESCRIPTION: 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 coauthored the screenplay. Controversy followed the production from the sta