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Actors: Sigourney Weaver, Holly Hunter, Dermot Mulroney, Harry Connick Jr., Will Patton
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| Review Summary and Plot Commentary about Copycat |
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Sigourney Weaver stars as Helen Hudson, a criminal profiler and psychologist turned writer. She gives lectures on serial killers and the movie starts with her giving one. When it was over she was attacked by Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick Jr.) in the bathroom. The movie then flashes forward 13 months and Hudson is suffering from agoraphobia and is totally housebound. Meanwhile detectives M.J. Monahan(Holly Hunter) and Reuben Goetz (Dermot Mulroney) get to a crime scene where they find a third murdered woman. It appears that this killer is copying famous serial killers patterns. After a phone call from Hudson, Goetz and Monahan go to visit her. Relcutant at first, Hudson eventually gives in and helps the detectives. But the the first real break doesnt come until Hudson gets a video of the next victim sent to her through the computer. When the detectives come back they figure out that its not just one serial killer this killer is copying, it's all of them in the order Hudson discussed them in her lectures. With a little help from Cullum via a video conference the detectives are able to figure out that the copycat is Peter Foley (William McNamara) but the police always seem to come up short as Foley set his sights on Hudson as his next intended target.
--Bobby Blades, Resident Scholar
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| Analysis of Copycat |
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Ratings are on a 1-10 scale (Low to High)
Plot
Composition of Movie
Actual chase scenes or violence - 30%
Planning/preparing, gather info, debate puzzles/motives - 50%
Feelings, relationships, character bio/development - 20%
Time/Era of Movie:
- 1980's-1999
Crime & Police Story?
Yes
Crime story:
- catching/stopping killer
- hunted by killer/stalker
Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Profession/status:
- writer
Age:
- 40's-50's
Eccentric:
Yes
- mentally ill
Is this an ordinary person caught up in events?
Yes
Hair color?
- brunette (Brown)
Hair style
- long, wavey (woman)
Body type
- average (woman)
Unclothed?
- Slightly see-through clothes
Events of movie makes character more...
- aggressive
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
How sensitive is this character?
- middling sensitive to others' feelings
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- average physique
Secondary Main Character
Identity:
- Female
Hair color
- red
Hair style
- (woman) medium/shoulderlgn wavy
Body type
- average (woman)
How much in movie?
- 60%
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Main Adversary
Identity:
- Male
Age:
- 20's-30's
Eccentric:
Yes
- wild
- emotionally unstable
- obsessed
- deluded
How much of work is main antagonist actually present in:
- 20%
Hair color
- brunette (Brown)
Hair type
- (man) short/standard straight
Body type
- average (man)
Ethnicity/Nationality
- White (American)
Intelligence
- Smarter than most other characters
Physique
- very athletic
How sensitive is this character?
- hard edged
Setting
City?
Yes
City:
- San Francisco
Style
Accounts of torture and death?
- very gory visuals of deaths and torture
Movie makes you feel...
- challenged
How many deaths in film?
- 3-4
Sex/nudity in movie?
Yes
What kind of sex:
- seeing nude female butt
How much use of techno gadgets?
- 3 (some)
Kind of violence:
- guns
Unusual forms of death
- perforation--bullets
Any profanity?
- Some foul language
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