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American Psycho

Nov 16 & 17, 2025
    Part of
  • Corporate Thrillers
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  • BAM Film 2025
Directed by Mary Harron (2000)
With Christian Bale, Justin Theroux, Josh Lucas
Patrick Bateman (Bale) is a Wall Street yuppie obsessed with success, status, and style, with a stunning fiancée (Witherspoon) and a beautiful apartment at the height of 80s excess. He is also a psychotic killer who rapes, murders, and dismembers both strangers and acquaintances without provocation or purpose. Based on Bret Easton Ellis’ classic of postmodern fiction, American Psycho offers New York’s most terrifying finance bro as an extreme embodiment of capitalist amorality.

UPCOMING Screenings

      RUNNING TIME

      102min

      VENUE

      Peter Jay Sharp Building
      BAM Rose Cinemas

      FORMAT

      DCP

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