Harrison Holzer as Mike, one of Dahmer and Backderf's friends.Tommy Nelson as Neil Davis, one of Dahmer and Backderf's friends.Dallas Roberts as Lionel Dahmer, Joyce's husband and Jeffrey's father.Anne Heche as Joyce Dahmer, Lionel's wife and Jeffrey's mother.Alex Wolff as John "Derf" Backderf, Dahmer's closest friend and an aspiring graphic artist.
Ross Lynch as Jeffrey Dahmer, Lionel and Joyce's son, who has obsessive fantasies of rape, cannibalism, and necrophilia.The closing credits note that Hicks was never seen again and that Jeffrey Dahmer admitted to killing 17 men when he was finally arrested. The next morning, Jeffrey drives around and picks up hitchhiker Steven Hicks from a concert. Jeffrey never has contact with his high school friends again. As Derf gets in the car and drives home, he notices the bat. As Derf walks back to his car, Jeffrey picks up a baseball bat and is about to strike him with it, although he later puts it down. He menacingly invites Derf inside for a beer, but Derf turns him down. Derf tells him that he is leaving for college the following day and offers him his drawings of Jeffrey, which he declines. Derf offers a ride to Jeffrey, finding him living alone with no plans for the future. That evening, Derf spots Jeffrey walking home alone, with blood on his fingernails. Unbeknownst to Lionel, Joyce leaves Ohio to live with relatives in Wisconsin, taking Dave with her and leaving Jeffrey completely alone. At graduation, Lionel hands Jeffrey the keys to the family Volkswagen Beetle which he would later use to commit his first murder. After the trip, Jeffrey makes some attempts to stay connected to his friends such as bringing a date to the prom, but ultimately drifts away from them. Jeffrey's father moves out while Jeffrey is away on the field trip.
Matthews with a baseball bat, but never goes through with attacking him. The following night, Jeffrey fantasizes about having sex with Dr. When Jeffrey returns home, he retires to his room and masturbates to the incident. Matthews becomes uncomfortable during the hernia exam when he notices that Jeffrey has an erection. Jeffrey fakes a cold so that he can get an appointment with him, and he can examine Jeffrey naked. Matthews, the physician of one of Derf's friends. The jogger with whom Jeffrey is obsessed turns out to be Dr. To cope, Jeffrey turns to drinking heavily, and begins killing animals himself. Meanwhile, Joyce starts relapsing into chronic mental illness, leading to increasingly bitter fights between her and Lionel. Derf and his friends form the "Dahmer Fan Club," using Jeffrey for a variety of pranks such as sneaking him in every club yearbook photo, and conning their way to a meeting with then Vice President Walter Mondale during a school field trip to Washington, D.C. Jeffrey inspires Derf to draw him in various situations drawings that would later be incorporated into Deaf's graphic novel My Friend Dahmer. During school, Jeffrey imitates the speech and gestures of his mother's interior decorator (who has cerebral palsy), clears his backpack, and makes loud noises, catching the attention of aspiring artist John "Derf" Backderf and his friends. In 1978, Lionel trashes Jeffrey's collection of bones and orders him to make friends at school. This hobby is initiated by his obsessive interest in how animals are "fitted together". For a hobby, Jeffrey collects dead animals that he dissolves to the bones using chemicals provided by his father, who is a chemist. Jeffrey develops an obsession with a male jogger whom he sees every day from his school bus. In 1974, Jeffrey Dahmer was a high school freshman living in Bath, Ohio, with his parents, Lionel and Joyce, and his younger brother Dave. The film was critically acclaimed by critics, who praised the historical accuracy and Lynch's performance. The film premiered at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival and was released in the United States on November 3, 2017, by Hulu. The film stars Ross Lynch as Dahmer, Alex Wolff as Derf, Dallas Roberts as Jeffrey's father, and Anne Heche as Jeffrey's mother. The film is based on the 2012 graphic novel of the same name by cartoonist John "Derf" Backderf, who had been friends with Dahmer in high school in the 1970s, until the time Dahmer began his killing spree in 1978.
My Friend Dahmer is a 2017 American biographical psychological drama film written and directed by Marc Meyers about American serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer.