Batman: Mask of the Phantasm
Batman Mask of the Phantasm also known as Batman The Animated Movie is a 1993 American animated superhero mystery film featuring the DC Comics character Batman, and is based on the 1990s Batman The Animated Series. Produced by Warner Bros. Animation and Warner Bros. Family Entertainment and released by Warner Bros., the film was directed by Eric Radomski and Bruce Timm, produced by Alan Burnett, Michael Uslan, Benjamin Melniker and Timm, and has a screenplay credited to Burnett, Paul Dini, Martin Pasko and Michael Reaves. It has a score by Shirley Walker. The film features the voice talents of Kevin Conroy, Mark Hamill and Efrem Zimbalist, Jr. reprising their roles from The Animated Series, in addition to the voices of Dana Delany, Hart Bochner, Stacy Keach and Abe Vigoda. The films storyline introduces Andrea Beaumont, Bruce Waynes former significant other, who returns to Gotham City, restarting their romance. Two weeks prior to her return, a new mysterious vigilante begins systematically murdering Gothams crime bosses. Due to the persons dark appearance, he is mistaken for Batman. Now on the run from the police, the Dark Knight must apprehend the killer, clear his name, and deal with the romance between himself and Andrea.
During a conference of crime bosses held in a Gotham City skyscraper, gangster Chuckie Sol is killed by a mysterious cloaked figure, shortly after Batman bursts in on the meeting. Due to the killers resemblance to Batman, the Dark Knight is blamed for Sols death. Councilman Arthur Reeves tells the media that Batman is a public menace despite Commissioner Gordons protests, then later attends a party at the mansion of billionaire Bruce Wayne, Batmans secret identity. Reeves teases Bruce about his bad luck with women and for having allowed an old girlfriend, Andrea Beaumont, to get away.In a flashback toyears before, Bruce meets Andrea in a cemetery while visiting his parents grave. That night, in one of his first crimefighting attempts, Bruce foils an armored car robbery while disguised in a black skimask and leather jacket. Though he succeeds, he is discouraged that the criminals did not fear him. Around the same time, he begins a romance with Andrea. Eventually, Bruce decides to abandon his plan to become a crimefighting vigilante and proposes marriage to Andrea. Soon afterward, however, Andrea mysteriously leaves Gotham with her father, Carl Beaumont, ending her engagement to Bruce in a Dear John letter. Believing that he has lost his last chance of having a normal life, Bruce dons the mask of Batman for the first time. ........
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