- Release Date:
- March 4, 2009
- Director:
- Zack Snyder
- Cast:
- Malin Akerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson
- Rating:
- R
- Runtime:
- 163
- Main Genre:
- Action
- Studio:
- Warner Bros. Pictures
- Writers:
- David Hayter, Alex Tse, Dave Gibbons, Alan Moore
- Tagline:
- Who watches the Watchmen?
- Website:
- http://www.watchmenmovie.com/
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Summary
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 Soviet Union - is permanently set at five minutes to midnight. When one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up 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 ragtag 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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