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Bates Motel is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 5 july 1987 with Bud Cort

Bates Motel (1987)

Bates Motel
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Released in USA 5 july 1987
Length 1h30
OriginUSA
Genres Drama,    Comedy,    Horror
Rating38% 1.9176851.9176851.9176851.9176851.917685

Bates Motel is a 1987 made-for-television film and a spin-off of the 1960 suspense horror film Psycho starring Bud Cort, Lori Petty, Moses Gunn and Jason Bateman which premiered on NBC on July 5, 1987.

The film is about Alex West, a mentally disturbed youth who was admitted to an asylum after killing his abusive stepfather. There he befriends Norman Bates and ends up inheriting the infamous Bates Motel. The film was originally produced as a pilot for a TV series set in the Bates Motel; however, it was never picked up by any network.

In 2013, A&E premiered a new TV series titled Bates Motel which takes place in the modern day and stars Freddie Highmore as young Norman Bates and Vera Farmiga as Mrs. Bates. However, being a prequel to the film, it is unrelated to the 1987 TV pilot.

Synopsis

Alex West (Bud Cort) roomed and became close friends with Norman Bates at the state lunatic asylum for nearly 20 years. After Bates' death, Alex finds that he is named in Norman's will as the inheritor of the Bates Motel, which has been vacant since Norman's arrest. Alex travels to Bates' California hometown (which this film has renamed Fairville from the original film's Fairvale) and with a little help from teenage runaway Willie (Lori Petty) and local handyman Henry Watson (Moses Gunn), Alex struggles to re-open the motel for business, only to have strange things happen.

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