WATCHMEN

Adventure, Mystery
Patrick Wilson, Jackie Earle Haley, Matthew Goode, Billy
Crudup, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Malin Akerman
March 6, 2009

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?