American Psycho: How to Make a Killing in Business...and LifeBy: Patrick Bateman Inspired by the film American Psycho, a darkly humorous collection of tongue in cheek advice on how to make it in the cutthroat world of business, as well as pointers about work life balance, dating, and personal style. Since its release in 2000, the film American Psycho, starring Christian Bale as Patrick Bateman, has been lauded as a searing send up of toxic masculinity and 1980s materialism. How to Make a Killing in Business . .