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.
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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Classical in form, earnest, resolved and spare.
- classical in formformally daring
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- sparerichly built
- contemporarynostalgic
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“Is Sigourney Weaver the best thing in Copycat?”
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- CinemaSerfon TMDB · Sep 20226/10
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, ha
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Cast
- Sigourney WeaverHelen Hudson
- Holly HunterM.J. Monahan
- Dermot MulroneyRuben Goetz
- William McNamaraPeter Foley
- Harry Connick Jr.Daryll Lee Cullum
- J.E. FreemanLt. Quinn
- Will PattonNicoletti
- John RothmanAndy
- Shannon O'HurleySusan Schiffer
- Bob GreenePachulski
Crew
- Jon AmielDirector
- David MadsenScreenplay
- Ann BidermanScreenplay
- László KovácsDirector of Photography
- Christopher YoungOriginal Music Composer
- Alan HeimEditor
- Jim ClarkEditor
- Arnon MilchanProducer
- Mark TarlovProducer
- Michael G. NathansonProducer
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