TY - ADVS AU - Snyder,Zack AU - Gordon,Lawrence AU - Levin,Lloyd AU - Snyder,Deborah AU - Hayter,David AU - Tse,Alex AU - Crudup,Billy AU - Goode,Matthew AU - Gugino,Carla AU - Haley,Jackie Earle AU - Morgan,Jeffrey Dean AU - Wilson,Patrick AU - Bates,Tyler AU - Gibbons,Dave ED - Warner Bros. Pictures (1969- ) ED - Paramount Pictures Corporation. ED - Legendary Pictures. ED - DC Comics, Inc. ED - Warner Home Video (Firm) TI - Watchmen AV - PN1997.2 .W38 2009 U1 - 791.43/72 22 PY - 2009///] CY - Burbank, CA PB - Warner Home Video KW - Gibbons, Dave, KW - Superheroes KW - United States KW - Drama KW - Murder KW - Investigation KW - Vigilantes KW - Conspiracy KW - Criminal behavior KW - Feature films KW - lcgft KW - Superhero films KW - Fantasy films KW - Action and adventure films KW - Film adaptations KW - Fiction films KW - Video recordings for the hearing impaired KW - Adaptations N1 - Based on the graphic novel co-created by Dave Gibbons and published by DC Comics; DVD release of the 2009 motion picture; Special features: twenty-five minutes of additional footage; "The phenomenon: the comic that changed comics" featurette; "Watchmen:" video journals (ca. 30 min.); music video "Desolation row," by My Chemical Romance; eleven Watchmen making-of webisodes; Director of photography, Larry Fong ; editor, William Hoy ; music, Tyler Bates; Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Carla Gugino, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Patrick Wilson; MPAA rating: R; for strong graphic violence, sexuality, nudity and language N2 - In the United States, costumed superheroes are part of the fabric of everyday society. But when one of his former colleagues is murdered, the washed-up, but no less determined, masked vigilante Rorschach sets out to uncover the 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 ER -