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Overview

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4.6/10   18,441 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Robert Bloch (novel)
Joseph Stefano (screenplay)
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Release Date:
4 December 1998 (USA) more
Tagline:
Check in. Unpack. Relax. Take a shower. [Theatrical] more
Plot:
A young female embezzeler arrives at the Bates Motel which has terrible secrets of its own. full summary | full synopsis
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Awards:
3 wins & 3 nominations more
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(42 articles)
Directors of the Decade: Gus Van Sant
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Review: Tom Ford’s “A Single Man”
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Rated R for violence and sexuality/nudity.
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105 min
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1.85 : 1 more
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The peep hole in the parlor is covered by a painting by French artist Jean-Honore Fragonard. The painting, titled "The Lock", depicts a man preparing to rape a woman. more
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Continuity: The opening scene is supposed to be 2:48 in the afternoon, but it's quite obvious that it was filmed at sunrise, probably on a Saturday or Sunday morning. There is no street activity, and the light from the right (east) is very weak and nearly horizontal. If it had been shot in mid-afternoon the sun would have been higher, the light stronger, and shadows pronounced and angled. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Samuel 'Sam' Loomis: You never did eat your lunch, did you?
Marion Crane: I better get back to the office. These extended lunch hours give my boss excess acid.
Samuel 'Sam' Loomis: Why don't you call your boss and tell him you're taking the rest of the afternoon off? Its Friday, anyway - and hot.
Marion Crane: What do I do with my free afternoon? Walk you to the airport?
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Referenced in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (2001) more
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Put It On more

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71 out of 107 people found the following comment useful.
What was the point?, 5 December 2004
Author: Peanuthead from Springfield, Illinois

This is easily the worst remake in film history. I have never understood the idea of a remake at all. If a film, like Psycho, is so good to start with why on earth do you want to try and improve on it? If you insist on tampering with perfection, why then do you have to try to recreate it in it's whole? There is nothing original here. Gus Van Sant put nothing of himself into this film. They say imitation is the highest form of flattery, but this is ridiculous. There are a lot of sides to a character as complex as Norman Bates, and I suspect that Vaughn may have wanted to explore them. Instead Van Sant forced him into sticking to a cheap imitation of Anthony Perkins. Perkins turned in a performance that lead to one of the most memorable characters in film history and it would have been impossible for any actor, no matter how good to recreate that. The rest of the characters are stuck just as tight to similarly wooden imitations of the originals. It is almost painful to watch very talented actors (namely William H Macy) have that talent stifled. In the end, Gus Van Sant set out to pay homage to a great film. Instead he cheapened it, and created a movie that is not worthy of late night cable.

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