Batman
It's from 1989, before you were born.
- Director
- Tim Burton
- Genre
- Superhero
- Stars
- Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson
- Released
- 1989
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About
As of 2026, it's 37 years old.
Tim Burton's Batman dragged the Caped Crusader out of the campy '60s and into a gloriously gothic, shadow-drenched Gotham in 1989, proving comic-book movies could be dark, stylish, and enormous. Its marketing — that simple yellow bat logo plastered everywhere — was a cultural event before the film even opened.
Jack Nicholson's gleeful Joker arguably stole the whole thing, and Danny Elfman's brooding theme became the sound of the character for a generation.
Moody, iconic, and hugely influential, Batman is the film that taught Hollywood a man dressed as a bat could be taken deadly seriously — and make a fortune doing it.
