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DVD Features:
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 2 hours, 6 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: May 15, 2007
- Originally Released: 1989
- Label: Warner Home Video
- Aspect Ratio: Full Frame - 1.33
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
Entertainment Reviews:
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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
I found that I really enjoyed the film.
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Nightmarish Conjurings
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 --
The idea of doing a dark, neurotic, highly stylized and highly claustrophobic superproduction is an audacious and appealing one, but director Tim Burton has only made it halfway there.
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Chicago Tribune
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
The storytelling has weaknesses, but the characters are fascinating.
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Orlando Sentinel
Rating: 2/5 --
Other than its prescience as a pop cultural milestone, this won't go down as one of the better superhero movies, nor even one of the best in the Batman cinematic canon.
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Patrick Nabarro
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).
Plot Synopsis:
In gloomy Gotham City the caped crusader must engage in a battle-to-the-death with the villainous Joker--a madman orchestrating a wave of crime and murder that has paralyzed the town. During the course of the struggle, Batman learns the truth about his own mysterious past, and the role played by the Joker in shaping his life when he was a boy.
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Superheroes
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Production Notes:
- Theatrical release: 1989.
- It was shot at the Pinewood Studios in England where renowned director Stanley Kubrick shot almost all of his films.
- The ad campaign and trailers for BATMAN used no tag lines or clips from the film, but instead merely showed the darkly glowing bat logo on a black background.
- The film was based on the DC comics character but was also inspired by Frank Miller's graphic novel THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS, which is about a darker, moodier Batman than the traditional character.
- BATMAN won an Academy Award for Best Art Direction.
- The film was released in the United States on the character's 50th anniversary.
- Actor Robin Williams was reportedly considered for the role of The Joker before it was offered to Jack Nicholson.
- This was not the first version of BATMAN put on the silver screen: In 1943, Lambert Hilyer directed a 15-episode serialization of the comic strip, followed in 1948 by Spencer Bennet's BATMAN AND ROBIN serial. In 1966, a film based on the 1960s television series was released featuring the show's stars Adam West and Burt Ward.
- In Great Britain, the release of this film required the introduction of a new British Board of Film Classification rating, BBFC 12. This rating indicates that children under the age of twelve are not allowed to see the film, even with parental consent.
- Linda Henrikson designed the costumes for Kim Basinger's character; Rick Provenzano was Ms. Basinger's hairdresser; Nick Dudman designed the makeup for the Joker.
- Estimated budget $30-40 million.
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