Copycat
Director: Jon Amiel
Genre: Thriller, LGBT, Psychological thriller, Crime Thriller
Year: 1995
Country: United States of America
Language: English Language
Starring: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, Harry Connick, Jr., Will Patton, William McNamara, John Rothman, J.E. Freeman
Copycat (1995) is an American psychological thriller, starring Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter. The film was directed by Jon Amiel, with a score composed by Christopher Young.
After giving a guest lecture on criminal psychology at a local university, Dr. Helen Hudson (Weaver), a respected field expert on serial killers, is cornered in a lavatory by one of her previous subjects, Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick, Jr.), who kills a police officer and brutally attacks her. Helen becomes severely agoraphobic as a result, sealing herself inside an expensive hi-tech apartment, conducting her entire life from behind a computer screen and assisted by a friend, Andy (John Rothman).
When a new series of murders spread fear and panic across her home city of San Francisco, detective M.J. Monahan (Hunter) and her partner Reuben Goetz (Dermot Mulroney) solicit Helen's expertise. Initially reluctant, Helen soon finds herself drawn into the warped perpetrator's game of wits.
As the murders continue Helen realizes the elusive assailant draws inspiration from notorious serial killers including Albert DeSalvo, The Hillside Strangler, David Berkowitz, Peter Kürten, Ted Bundy, Edmund Kemper and
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