Filmed in New York City and Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
(9 votes)
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Released theatrically April 14, 2000
(9 votes)
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The song "Walking on Sunshine" by Katrina & The Waves, which runs during the establishing shots of New York City and Wall Street, makes an ironic reference to Michael J. Fox's THE SECRET OF MY SUCCESS, which also features the song.
(8 votes)
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Leonardo DiCaprio, an early consideration for the role of Patrick Bateman, decided to star in THE BEACH instead.
(5 votes)
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To clean the movie up and acheive a relatively mild R-rating, the producers excised approximately eighteen seconds of footage from a menage-a-trois scene featuring an emotionally detached Patrick Bateman and two women (one of whom was co-writer Guinevere Turner).
(7 votes)
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While working out, Patrick Bateman watches Tobe Hooper's TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Several scenes later he pursues a victim with a chainsaw.
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Huey Lewis, objecting to the violence of AMERICAN PSYCHO, insisted producers remove his song "Hip To Be Square" from the official soundtrack album.
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Mrs. Wolfe, the realtor who is selling Paul Owen's apartment, is thought to be a reference to Tom Wolfe, and Pierce & Pierce, the firm which Bateman works for, is also the investment firm from Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities (as a side note, Vanities is the name of one of the many restaurants in the novel).
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There is a reference at one point in the book to someone named "McCoy," this could possibly be Sherman McCoy, the protagonist of Tom Wolfe's Bonfire of the Vanities.
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Real-life serial killer Paul Bernardo was a huge fan of the novel.
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Paul Denton from The Rules of Attraction makes a small cameo in the book. He's with Paul Owen at Harry's and is described as looking at Patrick as though he recognizes him, even though they've never met.
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Patrick's younger brother Sean Bateman, from The Rules of Attraction, also makes an appearance in one chapter of the book. It is interesting to note that Sean, whom Patrick hates, gets him into the restaurant Dorsia for dinner, something that Patrick tries to do and fails on his own numerous times in the book.
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After the success of the movie adaptation, a nightclub opened in Manhattan named "Dorsia". It was a popular hotspot for almost a year.
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