Tagline: Who watches the Watchmen?
A complex, multi-layered mystery adventure, “Watchmen” is set in an alternate 1985 America in which costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society, and the Doomsday Clock-which charts the USA’s tension with the placeSoviet Union-moves closer to midnight.
When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the outlawed but no less determined masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover a plot to kill and discredit all past and present superheroes. As he reconnects with his former crime-fighting legion-a disbanded group of retired superheroes, only one of whom has true powers-Rorschach glimpses a wide-ranging and disturbing conspiracy with links to their shared past and catastrophic consequences for the future. Their mission is to watch over humanity…but who is watching the Watchmen?
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Watchmen
Starring: Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman, Carla Gugino, Stephen McHattie, Matt Frewer
Directed by: Zack Snyder
Screenplay by: David Hayter, Alex Tse
Release Date: March 6th, 2009
MPAA Rating: R for graphic violence, sexuality, nudity, language.
Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Box Office Totals
Domestic: $107,509,799 (58.0%)
Foreign: $77,738,261 (42.0%)
Total: $185,248,060 (Worldwide)