Insomniac, Delusional, and Operating Heavy Machinery
A skeletal Christian Bale stars as the haunted, delusional industrial worker Trevor Reznik in The Machinist, a semi-original psychological thriller that opens nationwide Oct. 22. Bale reportedly lost 60 pounds to play the lead role, and his co-star, Jennifer Jason Leigh, looks as if she ate it off him. Leigh plays a chunky, dolled-up prostitute named Stevie, Reznik's sole confidante and companion. Reznik confesses to her that he has barely slept or eaten in over a year, a condition that makes him all the less capable of dealing with the bizarre events that unfold through the course of the movie. One such incident, a gory accident at Reznik's workplace, starts Reznik on his quest to resolve the film's eerie mysteries.