Copycat
1995 · Movie · R · 124 min · ★ 6.5 · 65% critics
A psychologist who can’t bring herself to leave home is pulled into a hunt when a new killer appears to mimic crimes from the past. With a detective team, she tries to anticipate the pattern of the copycat before the next attack.
Also known as Copykat · L'Imitateur
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Details
- Years
- 1995
- Release date
- 1995-10-27
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 124 min
- Critic score
- 65/100
- TMDB rating
- 6.5/10 (1,290 votes)
About
You’ll likely enjoy Copycat if you want a suspenseful serial-killer thriller driven by a tense partnership and psychological fear Not for you if you want a tightly believable police procedural or an especially surprising mystery, and you may prefer Seven or Kiss the Girls instead.
Pros: strong female leads; tense serial-killer premise; solid performances | Cons: plot holes reduce jeopardy; pacing drags sometimes; ending feels predictable
Themes
- police brutality
- psychology
- police operation
- police protection
- psychologist
- serial killer
- cowardliness
Cast & crew
Sigourney Weaver
as Helen Hudson
Holly Hunter
as M.J. Monahan
Dermot Mulroney
as Ruben Goetz
William McNamara
as Peter Foley
Harry Connick Jr.
as Daryll Lee Cullum
J.E. Freeman
as Lt. Quinn
Will Patton
as Nicoletti
John Rothman
as Andy
- SO
Shannon O'Hurley
as Susan Schiffer
- BG
Bob Greene
as Pachulski
Directed by Jon Amiel