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Patrick Bateman is a fictional character, the antihero and narrator of the novel American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, and its film adaptation. He is a wealthy, materialistic Wall Street investment banker leading a double life as a serial killer. Bateman has also briefly appeared in other Ellis's novels.
Bateman works as a specialist in mergers and acquisitions at the fictional Wall Street investment firm of Pierce & Pierce (also Sherman McCoy's firm in The Bonfire of the Vanities) and lives at 55 West 81st Street, Upper West Side in the American Gardens Building (where he is a neighbor of actor Tom Cruise). In his secret life, however, Bateman is a serial killer murdering a variety of people, from colleagues to the homeless to prostitutes. His crimes—including rape, torture, necrophilia, and cannibalism—are described in graphic detail in the novel.
Bateman comes from a wealthy family. His parents have a house on Long Island, and he mentions a summer house in Newport. His parents divorced sometime earlier, while his mother became sick and now resides at a sanatorium. His father, who first appeared in Ellis' preceding novel The Rules of Attraction, grew up on an estate in Connecticut, and now owns an apartment in the Carlyle Hotel in Manhattan. He is assumed to be dead as he is mentioned only in past tense during the novel. Bateman's younger brother Sean attends Camden College (and is a protagonist of Ellis' previous novel, The Rules of Attraction, in which Patrick Bateman was first introduced). Bateman attended Phillips Exeter Academy for prep school. He graduated from Harvard College in 1984 and Harvard Business School two years later, and moved to New York City.
Actors: Brenden Hamilton (writer), Brenden Hamilton (actor), Colton Rhodes-Baskett (writer), Colton Rhodes-Baskett (writer), Colton Rhodes-Baskett (director), Colton Rhodes-Baskett (editor), Colton Rhodes-Baskett (producer), Keith Godula (actor),
Genres: Drama, Horror, Short,Actors: Spicy Mac (director), Spicy Mac (costume designer), Raphaello (producer), Raphaello (producer), Raphaello (writer), Spicy Mac (writer), Emmanuel Delcour (actor), Marlene Mc'Cohen (actress), Gerald Webb (actor), Dave Vescio (actor), Raphaello (actor), Spicy Mac (producer), Kyle Rea (actor), Raphaello (editor), Spicy Mac (editor),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Spicy Mac (costume designer), Spicy Mac (director), Spicy Mac (producer), Raphaello (producer), Raphaello (writer), Spicy Mac (writer), Raphaello (actor), Marlene Mc'Cohen (actress), Dave Vescio (actor), Emmanuel Delcour (actor), G. Larry Butler (actor), Marlene Mc'Cohen (producer), Kyle Rea (actor), Raphaello (editor), Spicy Mac (editor),
Genres: Action, Short,Actors: Steven Paul (producer), Adam Mason (writer), Adam Mason (producer), Adam Mason (director), Adam Mason (editor), Eric M. Breiman (producer), Patrick Ewald (producer), Simon Boyes (writer), Simon Boyes (director), Nadja Brand (producer), Nadja Brand (actress), Eric Colvin (actor), Ali Hopper (producer), Ali Hopper (miscellaneous crew), Gary MacKay (actor),
Plot: After dating a wonderful man, Hope comes back home, sees her daughter Jennifer and goes to sleep. She wakes-up in the woods with a psychopath, fighting to survive for more than forty days and asking information about her daughter to the stranger.
Keywords: asphyxiation, bare-breasts, based-on-true-story, bathing, beating, bird, blinded, bloody-moon, booby-trap, broken-legActors: Woody Allen (actor), Christian Bale (actor), Pedro Almodóvar (actor), Antonio Banderas (actor), Javier Bardem (actor), Warren Beatty (actor), Jeff Bridges (actor), Michael Caine (actor), Joseph Cotten (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), Robert De Niro (actor), Michael Douglas (actor), Robert Duvall (actor), Xabier Elorriaga (actor), Fernando Fernán Gómez (actor),
Genres: ,Actors: Robert M. Melnik (miscellaneous crew), David Steinberg (miscellaneous crew), Mark Sanders (editor), Justin Kelly (miscellaneous crew), Boyd Banks (actor), Jane Conway (miscellaneous crew), Norman Orenstein (composer), Mila Kunis (actress), Kay Hawtrey (actress), William Shatner (actor), Neil Crone (actor), Philip Williams (actor), Michael Paseornek (producer), Charles Taylor (miscellaneous crew), Charles Taylor (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Rachael Newman has developed an interest for murders after she met psycho Patrick Bateman. To further study the subject, she enrolls at the university department for Behavioural and Social Sciences, under the expert leadership of ex-FBI man Robert Starkman. Very certain about herself, Rachael has one single goal: to become class assistant. It's a prestigious job as having that position will almost guarantee employment at the FBI. But becoming class assistant is no easy task to accomplish, as the first trouble arises when secretary Gerty Fleck decides she is too young for it. And Gerty Fleck won't be the only obstacle.
Keywords: african-american, answering-machine, application-form, babysitter, beaten-to-death, beaten-to-death-with-an-employee-of-the-year-award, beating, behavioral-science, beheading, birthdayActors: Paul Marchand (editor), Linda Park (actress), Mark Maccora (producer), Mark Maccora (actor), Andrew Farotte (actor), James Applebury (actor), Mark Rogers (producer), Jeromy Ceseña (writer), Blair Kroeber (actor), Marty Quinn (actor), Jeromy Ceseña (director), Jeromy Ceseña (editor), Mark Rogers (actor), Patrick McMahon (actor), Peter Canavese (actor),
Genres: Drama, Horror, Thriller,Actors: Guinevere Turner (actress), Justin Theroux (actor), Chloë Sevigny (actress), Reg E. Cathey (actor), Bill Sage (actor), Reese Witherspoon (actress), Samantha Mathis (actress), Christian Bale (actor), Jared Leto (actor), Josh Lucas (actor), Willem Dafoe (actor), Gunnar Hansen (actor), Ronald Reagan (actor), Edward R. Pressman (producer), Michael Paseornek (producer),
Plot: Patrick Bateman, a young, well to do man working on wall street at his father's company kills for no reason at all. As his life progresses his hatred for the world becomes more and more intense.
Keywords: .45-automatic, 1980s, abuse, aclu, alienation, anthropophagus, antisocial-personality-disorder, apartheid, automated-teller-machine, axeActors: Melvyn Bragg (producer), Rachel Weisz (actress), Natalie Avital (actress), Bret Easton Ellis (writer), Bret Easton Ellis (actor), Dechen Thurman (actor), Paul Blackthorne (actor), Jason Bushman (actor), Jay McInerney (actor), David Monahan (actor), Gerald Fox (director), Marieclaire Camilleri (actress), Stefan Girardet (composer), Laurie Israel (miscellaneous crew), Tamsin Pike (actress),
Genres: ,He's a real cool guy and he's a hero of mine
Travis, Rhinehart rolled into one cute son
Less than zero a grotesque nightmare
Subtly disturbing like normal behaviour
I understand nothing and I cannot speak
I'd walk in the park but the trees are diseased
No sweetheart and I am too confused
I only love my watch and my snake skin shoes
I feel so small in the supermarket queue
People seem to laugh at my choice of food
My personality is held together with sellotape
A loose fit just like a numb junkies hate
I pretty my face with all this cream and stuff
Ugliness inside much harder to cover up
I lack the thought to care about politics
Just do what I like ain't that democratic
Genesis, Huey Lewis, Filofax, CD5
A backdrop to discuss over expensive wine
Didn't even know when or why I should stop
I feel so stupid like a joke that belongs
I guess all psychos are made out of money
I cannot be saved as liberals keep telling me
I don't wanna be understood I just wanna kill
Out of blandness I am your everyday thrill
Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
Therefore I must be God
I must, I must be God
I touched your lips but now I just paint
Surface reflection all I desired babe
I am melancholy, flower cutting through stone
I am a crime everybody has at home
Papers hate me but they need my behaviour
The dignity amongst Hollywood trivia
Escape is so cheap of alcohol and whores
Mines the sanity of exclusive gun laws
Art critics say porno's easily obscene
Late Show retards Dice Clay is true poetry
They've never tried living underneath the water
That's real end of the century nausea
Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
Therefore I must be God
I must, I must be God
Patrick Bateman
We are babies crippled in Christ
Patrick Bateman
I fucked God up the ass
I fucked God up the ass
Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman
Patrick Bateman