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DVD Details
- Number of Discs: 2
- Rated: PG-13
- Closed captioning available
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: October 18, 2005
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Warner Home Video
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Michael Keaton & Jack Nicholson | |
Performer: | Kim Basinger, Jack Palance, Jerry Hall, Pat Hingle, Billy Dee Williams, Michael Gough, Robert Wuhl & Tracey Walter | |
Directed by | Tim Burton | |
Edited by | Ray Lovejoy | |
Screenplay by | Sam Hamm & Warren Skaaren | |
Composition by | Danny Elfman | |
Created by | Bob Kane & Bill Finger | |
Story by | Sam Hamm | |
Produced by | Jon Peters & Peter Guber | |
Director of Photography: | Roger Pratt | |
Executive Production by | Benjamin Melniker & Michael Uslan |
Major Awards:
Academy Awards 1989 -
Best Art Direction - Set Decoration: Not Applicable
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 1.5/5 --
Is it interesting? Fitfully. Is it fun? Not much, Gotham City fans, not much.
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Los Angeles Times
I found that I really enjoyed the film.
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Nightmarish Conjurings
...Nicholson keeps things moving higher and higher...
Los Angeles Times
Rating: 3.5/4 --
Nicholson isn't only offering a brilliant bit of self-parody here, he's doing it in service to the character
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LarsenOnFilm
Rating: 3/4 --
It's an unforgivably flat ending for a movie of such astonishing contours. But its first two-thirds -- which should be called The Joker's Big Misadventure -- is probably the best film of the year.
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Philadelphia Inquirer
The new Batman is the most intelligent film ever made from a comic book.
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Sunday Times (UK)
Rating: 4/5 --
Directed by Tim Burton, the movie has a brooding noir feel.
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Guardian
Product Description:
Tim Burton's BATMAN, inspired by Frank Miller's graphic novel THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, is a Gothic, Wagnerian treatment of the Batman mythos that explains the origins of Batman (Michael Keaton) and his nemesis, the maniacal Joker (a ripe Jack Nicholson).
Gotham City is a sunless, ominous haven for criminals, held in the corrupt grip of crime boss Carl Grissom (the ever-magnetic Jack Palance), and terrorized by a sadistic vandal and murderer known as The Joker. But it isn't long before a dark, mysterious caped crusader, who goes by the name of BATMAN, is on their trail and trying to thwart their evil doings. In this darkly entertaining retelling of the Marvel comic classic, ace photojournalist Vicki Vale (warmly and sympathetically played by Kim Basinger) is also on the trail--she wants to find out who Batman really is. Based on the popular comic book character created by Bob Kane for DC Comics; the story and tone have nothing in common with the popular TV series of the 1960s. Imaginative special effects and imposing, Gothic architectural sets dominate this visually graphic, stylish film. Keaton gives a brooding performance as the Caped Crusader and his interestingly understated alter-ego Bruce Wane. But is it Nicholson's Joker that steals the show, with his unnerving, brilliantly maniacal portrayal, especially in the context of his twisted relationship with Grissom's gal Alicia (a lanky, disquieting Jerry Hall).
Gotham City is a sunless, ominous haven for criminals, held in the corrupt grip of crime boss Carl Grissom (the ever-magnetic Jack Palance), and terrorized by a sadistic vandal and murderer known as The Joker. But it isn't long before a dark, mysterious caped crusader, who goes by the name of BATMAN, is on their trail and trying to thwart their evil doings. In this darkly entertaining retelling of the Marvel comic classic, ace photojournalist Vicki Vale (warmly and sympathetically played by Kim Basinger) is also on the trail--she wants to find out who Batman really is. Based on the popular comic book character created by Bob Kane for DC Comics; the story and tone have nothing in common with the popular TV series of the 1960s. Imaginative special effects and imposing, Gothic architectural sets dominate this visually graphic, stylish film. Keaton gives a brooding performance as the Caped Crusader and his interestingly understated alter-ego Bruce Wane. But is it Nicholson's Joker that steals the show, with his unnerving, brilliantly maniacal portrayal, especially in the context of his twisted relationship with Grissom's gal Alicia (a lanky, disquieting Jerry Hall).
Description by Warner Home Video:
Batman: Special Edition
Jack Nicholson is the Joker, who emerged from a horrible accident as a maniacal criminal. Michael Keaton is the Caped Crusader, who emerged from a childhood trauma to become a masked crimefighter. Kim Basinger is Vicki Vale, the talented photojournalist desired by both men. And Batman is the movie, the all-out spectacular directed by Tim Burton, set to songs by Prince and a music score by Danny Elfman, and an Academy AwardO winner* for Best Art Direction/Set Decoration (Anton Furst and Peter Young).
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Superheroes
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- UPC: 012569713710
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