A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.A young female embezzler arrives at the Bates Motel, which has terrible secrets of its own.
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- 4 wins & 6 nominations
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- TriviaIn Psycho (1960), Sir Alfred Hitchcock wanted his opening shot to be a long, complete pan and zoom over the city into Marion's hotel room. Sadly, the technology was not yet perfected, and he achieved his effect through a series of pans and dissolves. The remake does a complete travelling shot, as Hitchcock had intended.
- GoofsSome continuity errors were deliberately included, being copied from the original Psycho (1960).
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Norman Bates: A boy's best friend is his mother.
- Crazy creditsThanks to John Woo for use of his kitchen knife.
- ConnectionsEdited into Tough Guise: Violence, Media & the Crisis in Masculinity (1999)
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An Interesting Case
Film! What a mystery. Nobody can doubt that Gus Van Sant is a truly gifted filmmaker - I'm writing this after "Milk" - so how can it be that remaking a classic like "Psycho" shot by ,virtually, shot, Van Sant fails so miserably. Not an ounce of what made the original what it is, makes it to the remake. Every wrong choice found a home here. Anne Heche? Who thought of it? She is so bad with that unbearable little voice, one kind of wants her to die. Julianne Moore makes her Vera Miles part a butch, unattractive character. Viggo Mortensen, an actor I love, is kind of embarrassing as is William H Macy in the Martin Balsam part. The wardrobe is unforgivable and Chris Doyle, one of the best living cinematographers, creates a flat, painful, jarringly colorful frame but the worst of all is Vince Vaughn. Absolutely unforgivable. What a terrible, terrible performance. The exact opposite of Anthony Perkins where everything was intensely personal. Here it feels like a Saturday Night Live sketch, one of the less fortunate ones. I haven't been able to forgive Vince Vaughn. That silly, shallow giggle he gives to Norman Bates, will return to haunt him.
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Box office
- Budget
- $60,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $21,485,655
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $10,031,850
- Dec 6, 1998
- Gross worldwide
- $37,170,655
- Runtime1 hour 45 minutes
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- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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