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6.5

Copycat

R·1995·124m

Thriller

Crime

Mystery

Horror

Thriller

Crime

Mystery

Horror

Summary

An agoraphobic psychologist and a female detective must work together to take down a serial killer who copies serial killers from the past.

Cast

Sigourney Weaver

Helen Hudson

Holly Hunter

M.J. Monahan

Dermot Mulroney

Ruben Goetz

William McNamara

Peter Foley

Harry Connick Jr.

Daryll Lee Cullum

J.E. Freeman

Lt. Quinn

Will Patton

Nicoletti

John Rothman

Andy

Shannon O'Hurley

Susan Schiffer

Bob Greene

Pachulski

Tony Haney

Kerby

Danny Kovacs

Kostas

Tahmus Rounds

Landis

Scott Devenney

Cop #1

David Michael Silverman

Mike

Diane Amos

Gigi

Kelly De Martino

Festival girl

Richard Conti

Harvey

Nick Scoggin

Conrad

Bert Kinyon

Burt

Dennis Richmond

KXBU Anchorman

Rob Nilsson

SWAT Commander

Kenny Kwong

Chinese Kid

Charles Branklyn

Doc

Rebecca Klingler

Peter's Wife

Terry Brown

Cop #2

Corie Henninger

Jogger

Bill Bonham

Photographer

Kathleen Stefano

Peter's Mother

Chris Beale

Tech Guy #1

Hansford Prince

Fred

Don West

Attorney

Jay Jacobus

Judge

John Charles Morris

Young Peter

Keith Phillips

Felix Mendoza

Johnetta Shearer

Paramedic

Ron Kaell

Mac

Kelvin Han Yee

Chinese Detective

James Cunningham

Hal

Victor Talmadge

Head Waiter

Brian Keith Russell

Coroner's Man

Damon Lawner

Festival Dude

Russ Christoff

Commissioner Petrillo

Doug Morrisson

SWAT #1

Edith Bryson

Landlady

Jeni Chua

Michelle

William Oates

Man in Corridor

Lee Kopp

Haircut Man

Thomas J. Fieweger

Bodger the Cop

Floyd Gale Holland

L. Bottemy

Anthony Moore

Uniformed Policeman

Stephanie Smith

Disturbed Tenant #1

S. J. Spinali

Disturbed Tenant #2

Katherine Fitzhugh

Disturbed Tenant #3

Robert Benscoter

Disturbed Tenant #4

Arlon G. Greene

Male Jogger

Stuart W. Yee

Thug

Vincenetta Gunn

Screaming Woman

David D. Ferguson

Dock Onlooker

Eleva Singleton

Paramedic

Gena Bingham

Victim in Car at Gas Station

Jon Briddell

Burglar (uncredited)

Crew

Director

Jon Amiel

Screenplay

Ann Biderman

Screenplay

David Madsen

Reviews

Geronimo1967

September 3, 2022

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.