Copycat

"One man is copying the most notorious killers in history one at a time. Together, two women must stop him from killing again. Or they’re next."

1995 2h 4m EN

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6.5

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6.6

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★6.5TMDB · 1,358🍅76%Rotten Tomatoes●54Metacritic★6.6IMDB · 79,811

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An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

“One man is copying the most notorious killers in history one at a time. Together, two women must stop him from killing again. Or they’re next.”

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Cast

Sigourney Weaver
Helen Hudson
Holly Hunter
M.J. Monahan
Dermot Mulroney
Ruben Goetz
William McNamara
Peter Foley
Harry Connick Jr.
Daryll Lee Cullum
J.E. Freeman
Lt. Quinn
Will Patton
Nicoletti
John Rothman
Andy

Credits

Behind the camera

Director: Jon Amiel
Writers: Ann Biderman, David Madsen
Languages: English, German, Italian, Cantonese
Countries: United States of America

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ERA

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31 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.

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2 / 8

WORLD

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Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, German, Italian, Cantonese.

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3 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Directed by Jon Amiel, shot by László Kovács. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.

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4 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Original score by Christopher Young. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.

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5 / 8

DIRECTOR

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Editor Jim Clark shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.

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6 / 8

CAST

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Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter and Dermot Mulroney carry the top of the cast.

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7 / 8

FACT

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Marketing tagline: "One man is copying the most notorious killers in history one at a time. Together, two women must stop him from killing again. Or they’re next.".

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8 / 8

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IMDB entry: tt0112722 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

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The take

Jon Amiel directs. László Kovács behind the camera. Christopher Young scores. Jim Clark cuts. Profitable at the box office. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English, German, Italian, Cantonese.

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131 years old — old enough to be someone's favourite childhood film.
2Dialogue crosses 4 languages: English, German, Italian, Cantonese.
3Directed by Jon Amiel, shot by László Kovács. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
4Original score by Christopher Young. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
5Editor Jim Clark shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
6Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter and Dermot Mulroney carry the top of the cast.
7Marketing tagline: "One man is copying the most notorious killers in history one at a time. Together, two women must stop him from killing again. Or they’re next.".
8IMDB entry: tt0112722 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.
9Released under 13 different titles around the world.

The technical file

Cinematography: László Kovács
Original score: Christopher Young
Editing: Jim Clark
Production design: Jim Clay
Costume design: Claudia Brown
Makeup / hair: Fred C. Blau Jr.
Sound: Robin O'Donoghue
Stunt coordinator: Tim A. Davison
Runtime: 124 min · 2h 4m
Aspect ratio (typical): 1.37:1 (Academy)
Status: Released
Budget: $20,000,000
Box office: $32,000,000
Return: 160% of budget
Original language: EN
Certification (US): R
IMDB: Copycat (1995)
Rotten Tomatoes: 76% 🍅 Fresh
Metacritic: 54/100
IMDB rating: 6.6/10 · 79,811 votes
MPAA: R

Awards

2 wins & 1 nomination total

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CinemaSerf2022-09-03
★ 6/10
Sigourney Weaver is "Helen", a psychologist who has a major panic attack if she has to leave her apartment to fetch a newspaper from the corridor outside! She is, however an expert on what drives serial killers - having had a pretty near death experience with one earlier in her career - Harry Connick Jnr, no less. When a copycat starts to kill young women, she is drafted in by police officers "Monahan" (Holly Hunter) and her partner "Goetz" (Dermot Mulroney) and together they have to track down this masochistic individual before he strikes again. To make things more interesting, the killer starts to get in touch with them, to tease and goad them - he even gives them a name - but can they apprehend him before his spree continues unabated? It's an OK crime drama this, no better really. The cast work well enough, but the plot is riddled with holes that rather rob the thing of much jeopardy and provide for an ending that you can see from space. Sigourney Weaver does enough, and Hunter makes for quite a feisty and determined cop but the pace of this overlong feature is lethargic at best, with too many distractions in the story that render much of this quite tedious at times. Perhaps, had Jon Amiel tightened up the script a bit and cut out some of the unnecessary character development stuff, we might have been left with a more potent catch-me-if-you-can. As it is though, this is all pretty unremarkable.

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