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The Dark Knight
2008•152 min•PG-13
★
(3,103,183 votes)9.1/10
PLOT
Set within a year after the events of Batman Begins (2005), Batman, Lieutenant James Gordon, and new District Attorney Harvey Dent successfully begin to round up the criminals that plague Gotham City, until a mysterious and sadistic criminal mastermind known only as "The Joker" appears in Gotham, creating a new wave of chaos. Batman's struggle against The Joker becomes deeply personal, forcing him to "confront everything he believes" and improve his technology to stop him. A love triangle develops between Bruce Wayne, Dent, and Rachel Dawes.
DIRECTOR
Christopher Nolan
WRITER
Jonathan Nolan, Christopher Nolan, David S. Goyer
CAST
Christian Bale, Heath Ledger, Aaron Eckhart
