Episode #2 – Batman (1989)

Happy Batman Day! Go back to 1989 as Perry and Derrick talk about Tim Burton’s Batman, which changed the way many looked at the Dark Knight. Listen to Derrick’s retelling of what it was like in the summer of ’89 when Batmania gripped the nation and what the movie got right and what it got wrong.

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Batman (1989)

Directed by Tim Burton
Written by Sam Hamm
Based on DC Comics characters created by Bob Kane and Bill Finger

Cast

Michael Keaton – Batman/Bruce Wayne
Jack Nicholson – The Joker/Jack Napier
Kim Basinger – Vicki Vale
Michael Gough – Alfred Pennyworth
Robert Wuhl – Alexander Knox
Pat Hingle – Commissioner James Gordon
Billy Dee Williams – District Attorney Harvey Dent
Jack Palance – Carl Grissom
William Hootkins – Lieutenant Eckhart
Tracey Walter – Bob the Goon
Jerry Hall – Alicia Grissom
Lee Wallace – Mayor