MOVIE · 2012
Batman: The Dark Knight Returns, Part 1
ActionAdventureAnimationCrimeDramaMysterySci-FiThriller76 min
Ten years after Batman vanished, Gotham City is overrun by a new breed of criminal, pulling an older Bruce Wayne back into the cape and cowl. Peter Weller is Wayne at 55, returning to a city that’s harsher and more cynical, and no longer waiting for rescue. With Ariel Winter and David Selby in the voice cast, this animated take on a future Gotham frames Batman as an aging vigilante testing himself against a changed city and a new era of crime.
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