
American Psycho(2000)
A wealthy New York investment banking executive hides his alternate psychopathic ego from his co-workers and friends as he escalates deeper into his illogical, gratuitous fantasies.

“They were searching for a killer. She was searching for a way out.”
An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.

Ann-Margret
Lorraine Petrovich

Marg Helgenberger
Jen Powell

Henry Thomas
Dylan McCarthy

Nicholas Campbell
Rusty Zuvic

Rick Peters
Billy Lee Peterson
David McIlwraith
Alan Sanford

Bruce Gray
Ephraim Quince

J.C. MacKenzie
Ed Baker

Emily Hampshire
Tracy Billings

Anthony J. Mifsud
Gary Martin
Happy Face Murders is a thriller, crime, drama, tv movie film released in 1999 exploring themes of serial killer. Directed by Brian Trenchard-Smith, it stars Ann-Margret, Marg Helgenberger, Henry Thomas. An eccentric older woman implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she picks up from the detectives on the case. Implicating herself and sentenced to jail, she then recants her testimony. But no one believes her until clues surface from the real killer that he is still out there, has killed before, and will kill again. He signs his messages with Happy Faces.
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