Watchmen is a 2009 American neo-noir superhero film directed by Zack Snyder and starring Malin Åkerman, Billy Crudup, Matthew Goode, Jackie Earle Haley, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, and Patrick Wilson. It is an adaptation of the 1986-87 DC Comics limited series of the same name by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons. The film is set in an alternate history in the year 1985 and the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union, as a group of mostly retired American superheroes investigates an apparent conspiracy against them and uncovers something even more grandiose and sinister, while their moral limitations are challenged by the complex nature of the circumstances. ... more on Wikipedia