Copycat
An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.
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Rob Nilsson
Jon Amiel
Matthew Carlisle
Jeffrey Wetzel
Richard Oswald
Hilbert Hakim
H. Bud Otto
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Sigourney Weaver is "Helen", a psychologist who has a major panic attack if she has to leave her apartment to fetch a newspaper from the corridor outside! She is, however an expert on what drives serial killers - having had a pretty near death experience with one earlier in her career - Harry Connick Jnr, no less. When a copycat starts to kill young women, she is drafted in by police officers "Monahan" (Holly Hunter) and her partner "Goetz" (Dermot Mulroney) and together they have to track down this masochistic individual before he strikes again. To make things more interesting, the killer starts to get in touch with them, to tease and goad them - he even gives them a name - but can they apprehend him before his spree continues unabated? It's an OK crime drama this, no better really. The cast work well enough, but the plot is riddled with holes that rather rob the thing of much jeopardy and provide for an ending that you can see from space. Sigourney Weaver does enough, and Hunter makes for quite a feisty and determined cop but the pace of this overlong feature is lethargic at best, with too many distractions in the story that render much of this quite tedious at times. Perhaps, had Jon Amiel tightened up the script a bit and cut out some of the unnecessary character development stuff, we might have been left with a more potent catch-me-if-you-can. As it is though, this is all pretty unremarkable.
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The directors of Copycat are Rob Nilsson, Jon Amiel, Matthew Carlisle, Jeffrey Wetzel, Richard Oswald, Hilbert Hakim, and H. Bud Otto.
The cast of Copycat includes John Rothman as Andy, J.E. Freeman as Lt. Quinn, Dennis Richmond as KXBU Anchorman, Charles Branklyn as Doc, Kenny Kwong as Chinese Kid, Victor Talmadge as Head Waiter, Holly Hunter as M.J. Monahan, Dermot Mulroney as Ruben Goetz, Jay Jacobus as Judge, Sigourney Weaver as Helen Hudson, Stuart W. Yee as Thug, Nick Scoggin as Conrad, and more.
The duration of Copycat is 2h 4 mins.
Yes. You can watch the Copycat trailer on this Fanbiz page on Fanziz.
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Copycat was released on 27 Oct 1995.
Copycat is listed under Thriller, Crime, and Mystery on Fanbiz.
Copycat has 1 review on Fanziz, with an average rating of 6.0/10. One reviewer wrote: "Sigourney Weaver is "Helen", a psychologist who has a major panic attack if she has to leave her apartment to fetch a newspaper from the corridor outside! She is, however an exp..."
