Studio: Warner Bros. Pictures
Starring: Billy Crudup, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Matthew Goode, Patrick Wilson
Directed By: Zack Snyder
Written By: Alan Moore, Alex Tse, Dave Gibbons, David Hayter
Produced By: Deborah Snyder, Lawrence Gordon, Lloyd Levin
Rated: R
In Theaters: 2009-03-06
Genre: Action, Drama, Sci-fi, Thriller
Plot:

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?