American Psycho (2000)

Plotzle Original · O74 · May 15, 2026 · Thriller / Drama

Six plot descriptions for American Psycho (2000). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A corporate consultant travels between failing Midwestern factories and slowly erases her own identity by adopting the mannerisms and histories of the employees she interviews for layoffs.
2. Two suburbanite neighbors develop a shared delusion that their gated community represents the pinnacle of human achievement and begin excluding residents who fail their arbitrary standards of patriotism.
3. An undocumented teenager in Phoenix witnesses his employer's murder and sells false testimony to three competing gangs while hiding the real shooter's identity from immigration authorities.
4. A wealthy New York investment banker hides his psychopathic alternate identity from his colleagues and friends while he descends deeper into increasingly violent and gratuitous fantasies that may or may not be real.
5. A philosophy professor in Boston believes his thoughts can kill people and isolates himself in his apartment while his concerned wife tries to have him committed against his will.
6. A decorated Chicago homicide detective becomes obsessed with proving his estranged brother is a serial killer but the evidence continues to vanish from the precinct records room.