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Psycho

1998

Gus Van Sant

Vince Vaughn, Anne Heche, Julianne Moore, Viggo Mortensen ...

4.1

9,143

Horror. Mystery In this remake of Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Anne Heche takes over Janet Leigh's role of Marion Crane, a young secretary whose boyfriend, Sam Loomis, has troubles paying off a debt and his wife's alimony. One day, a rich client of her boss buys a house with $400,000 in cash. To fix her problems, Marion steals the money and heads out to California to live her dream life with Sam. But she gets lost in a bad storm and stops at the ... [+]

	Author	Review
United Kingdom	Jonathan Romney The Guardian	"Van Sant has managed to spin a big-budget studio project into a piece of conceptual art, a provocative inquiry into the nature of cinematic originality."	POS
United States	Roger Ebert rogerebert.com	"The movie is an invaluable experiment in the theory of cinema, because it demonstrates that a shot-by-shot remake is pointless (...) Rating: ★½ (out of 4)"	NEG
United States	Edward Guthmann SFGATE	"Gus Van Sant's remake honors the Hitchcock classic while adding a few surprises"	POS
United States	Godfrey Cheshire Variety	"While Hitchcock’s 'Psycho' today still seems fresh, bold and ahead of its time, Van Sant’s updated tribute makes the same thing seem quaint and old-fashioned"	NEG

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