Top cast:Gladys Hulette,Yale Boss
Director:Irvin Kershner
Genre:Adventure
Region:Japan
Year:2002
Storyline:He continued, explaining how Michael was seeking the baby, his next of kin (the spawn of Michael?), for a blood sacrifice (to save the tribe), and why he kept reappearing year after year - especially when the stars were aligned into a Thorn symbol:"The Druids were also great mathematicians and astronomers, but the Thorn symbol is actually a constellation of stars that appears from time to time on Halloween night.After they cut open a large pane of glass in heir own room, Hunt thrillingly scaled up he outside panes of sheer glass, assisted by bonding, magnetic-adhesive gloves (one of which failed), then cut the server room glass eleven stories higher, and broke through the opening to access the hotel""s servers.The enslaved humans were taunted by young boys in the street who threw stones at them, and cautioned by ""human"" rights activist Ari (Helena Bonham Carter) to not be cruel to the new batch of slaves, although she was derided as a "human lover...I""m Batman").The newly-elected, determined District Attorney Harvey Dent (Billy Dee Williams) vowed with Gotham City""s Mayor Borg (Lee Wallace) and Police Commissioner James Gordon (Pat Hingle) to rid the streets of criminals (a syndicate called a "nest of vipers") led by kingpin crime boss Carl Grissom (Jack Palance) and his second in command, chief enforcer-henchman Jack Napier (Jack Nicholson).It was the 16th highest-grossing (domestic) film of its year, 1979 (the #1 film wasKramer vs.Kramer (1979)).It was thethirdmost-commercially successful film of Allen""s entire career, grossing $39.9 million (domestic), just behindMidnight in Paris (2011)at $56.8 million (domestic), andHannah and Her Sisters (1986)at $40 million (domestic).If adjusted for inflation, it was Allen""ssecond-highest grossing film at $145.8 million, just behindAnnie Hall (1977)at $157.1 million.It was Allen""s first 2.35:1 anamorphic widescreen (or Cinemascopic) release; it was specified that it would only be released in its original "letter-boxed" format (rather than pan-and-scan) for early TV broadcasts and video versions.