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Copycat (1995) is an American psychological thriller, starring Sigourney Weaver and Holly Hunter.

After giving a guest lecture on criminal psychology at a local university, Dr. Helen Hudson (Sigourney Weaver), a respected field expert on *** killers, is cornered in a lavatory by one of her previous subjects, the incurable psychopath Daryll Lee Cullum (Harry Connick, Jr.), who kills a police officer in front of and brutally attacks her. She becomes severely agoraphobic as a result, sealing herself inside an expensive hi-tech apartment, conducting her entire life from behind a computer screen and assisted by a gay male friend, Andy (John Rothman).
However, when a new series of murders spread fear and panic across her home city of San Francisco, each crime scene an imitation of a preceding *** killer's modus operandi, tough tomboy detective M.J. Monahan (Holly Hunter) and her partner Reuben Goetz (Dermot Mulroney) solicit Helen's expertise. Initially reluctant, the doctor soon finds herself drawn into the warped perpetrator's game of wits, especially when she realises that she somehow figures quite prominently in his master plan. As the weeks draw on, the elusive assailant draws inspiration from more classic killers including Albert Desalvo, The Hillside Strangler, David Berkowitz, Peter Kürten, Ted Bundy, Edmund Kemper and Jeffrey Dahmer.