Patrick Bateman is a handsome, well-educated, intelligent young man. During the day he works on Wall Street, but this serves only as an appendage to his true calling. What he does in the evenings and at night cannot be dreamed of by the pampered man in the street even in his worst nightmare. He is twenty-six years old and living his own American Dream. Ellis's novel, which has quickly become a modern classic, was adapted into a film by Mary Harron (I Shot Andy Warhol, The Rough Bettie Page, The Diary of a Moth), starring Christian Bale, Willem Dafoe, Reese Witherspoon, Jared Leto, Chloë Sevigny.