American Psycho is a 2000 satirical psychological horror film co-written and directed by Mary Harron, based on Bret Easton Ellis's 1991 novel of the same name. age 15+ Based on 17 reviews. I'm heard that it's a very dark/explicit book. It's just as well a woman directed "American Psycho." I’ve been known to be both a picky reader and a finicky film critic, and even I think the movie version of Bret Easton Ellis’ novel, published in 1991, is faithful to the text it’s based on. the back of a recent DVD release with the R rating prominently displayed. #3 Posted: 2/8/16 at 9:52am While I saw the movie when I was 13 or so, it definitely isn't "appropriate" for that age group but my parents never cared what I watched. From £7.49. Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is... Read 9,550 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Read 9,550 reviews from the world's largest community for readers. Welcome to the LitCharts study guide on Bret Easton Ellis's American Psycho. Comedy of menace maybe, but definitely not comedy of manners. Twitter Share . In American Psycho, Bret Easton Ellis imaginatively explores the incomprehensible depths of madness and captures the insanity of violence in our time or any other. He just acts out a little more. Nothing is enough. That was its point, argues Irvine Welsh – … A male director might have thought Patrick Bateman, the hero of "American Psycho," was a serial killer because of psychological twists, but Mary Harron sees him as a guy who's prey to the usual male drives and compulsions. 'American Psycho' is NOT a slasher movie. Parents say (6) Kids say (17) Adult Written bycitizencody97 March 26, 2019. age 18+ An amazing film for adults, yet not as graphic as the novel. She's transformed a novel about blood lust into a movie about men's vanity. Parents say . Book Review: Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" Book Review: Bret Easton Ellis' "American Psycho" Even people who have never read Bret Easton Ellis' American Psycho likely do not expect to hear the phrase "comedy of manners" in reference to it. … “Beneath its very thin veneer of thematic posturing American Psycho is pure trash, as scummy and mean as anything it depicts: a dirty book by a dirty writer. The simple and most conservative answer to this question is no. It stars Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Jared Leto, Josh Lucas, Chloë Sevigny, Samantha Mathis, Cara Seymour, Justin Theroux, Guinevere Turner and Reese Witherspoon. Money, sex, social stature, there is always someone else who has more and everyone else expect from you to try harder for even more. Created by the original team behind SparkNotes, LitCharts are the world's best literature guides. At what age would you recommend reading 'American Psycho'? In "American Psycho," Ellis attains the rank of a master satirist, viciously skewering a culture that reduces life to power lunches, Armani suits, personal hygiene, and video stores. It is a depiction, a fantasy if you will, of the life of modern man and his place in society. A careful, controlled, and shocking novel, American Psycho by Brenton Easton Ellis remains one of the most controversial and important pieces of modern literature. Those who remember Universal re-releasing the 1960 Alfred Hitchcock film in 1968 may recall that it received an M rating, the equivalent at the time to what is now PG.