The Dark Knight

The Dark Knight

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The Dark Knight (2008)

PG-13 (US) | USA, UK | English, Mandarin | 152 min

Directed by: Christopher Nolan

8.7

Action Crime Drama Thriller

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.

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Awards

BAFTA Film Award 2009

Best Make Up & Hair

Nominated

Best Achievement in Sound Editing

Winner

Cast & Crew

Christopher Nolan

Christopher Nolan

Director

Christian Bale

Christian Bale

Bruce Wayne

Heath Ledger

Heath Ledger

Joker

Aaron Eckhart

Aaron Eckhart

Harvey Dent

Michael Caine

Michael Caine

Alfred

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Maggie Gyllenhaal

Rachel

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Best Joker Scenes in The Dark Knight

Best Joker Scenes in The Dark Knight

The Joker Visits Gotham Hospital Clip

The Joker Visits Gotham Hospital Clip

The Joker's Interrogation Clip

The Joker's Interrogation Clip

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Release Date

Argentina

(Buenos Aires, premiere)

2008-07-14

USA

(New York City, New York, premiere)

2008-07-14

Australia

No data

2008-07-16

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Also Known As (A.K.A.)

The Dark Knight

(Original title)

Kalorësi i Errësirës

Albania

Batman: El caballero de la noche

Argentina

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Parent Guide

There are extremely pervasive and frightening moments of menace and threats, primarily by the main antagonist of The Joker, who wears horrific clown make-up to scare people and to hide the graphic scars on his cheeks.

It is implied that the Joker has the remaining mob boss killed and fed to his own dogs before taking his place.

Two-Face hits a girl when deciding not to kill her.

As Batman is fighting the Joker and his henchmen, the Joker has a hidden knife blade in the toe of his shoe which he uses to kick Batman in the rib. The scene then cuts to Batman shouting in pain before throwing the Joker to the floor.

Frequent and prolonged scenes of violence throughout. There are multiple shootings, stabbings, fistfights, explosions, bombings and burnings. However, the violence is only of a moderate quality and never bloody or gory.

The Joker slams a pencil into a man's eye brutally. No blood or gore shown but it is extremely abrupt and shocking.

A building is blown up.

Apart from Harvey Dent's scarred face, there is no blood or gore that is visibly seen throughout the entire film.

PG-13 violence type: blood, brutal and graphic.

There is a scene where it is implied that the Joker slashes the cheeks of another man in a Glasgow smile/Chelsea grin. We see nothing as the camera cuts away as it happens, but the actions are quite clear nonetheless.

A man is shown hanging from a noose in front of a window in a "jump" scene, and he is already dead when he is dropped.

A man is bitten and another is mauled by a dog, there is blood shown later during the first and the second doesn't show any at all.

A man suffers intense burns to one side of his face, later the muscle and bone are visible in areas and his eyelid is burned away to expose his whole eyeball.

A woman dies in a flaming explosion. The camera cuts to show the outside and the building blowing up so we see nothing of her death.

There is a scene in which a man is shown to have a bomb sewn under his skin. When it later explodes although the camera cuts to show the explosion from another window, and the man can still be seen blowing up into a blood red smoke cloud.

A man has his legs broken, after being dropped from a small height. The breaking is audible and you see his legs crumple under him.

Despite the nature of these scenes, there is no real gore and there is very, very little blood. However, the violence is discussed openly, and the Joker, who's the main perpetrator, often boasts or explains the violence graphically. He also declares that people will die and brutally murders several in quick succession.

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