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Quick Info

Rating

6.4/10

Release1990

Runtime1h 35m

StatusReleased

Budget$16,000,000

Revenue$48,900,000

Production

Universal Pictures

Renaissance Pictures

Movie

Darkman

1990

1h 35m

6.4

Action

Science Fiction

Thriller

Synopsis

Dr. Peyton Westlake is on the verge of realizing a major breakthrough in synthetic skin when his laboratory is destroyed by gangsters. Having been burned beyond recognition and forever altered by an experimental medical procedure, Westlake becomes known as Darkman, assuming alternate identities in his quest for revenge and a new life with a former love.

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