Batman Forever

***Batman Forever*** is a 1995 American superhero film directed by Joel Schumacher and produced by Tim Burton, based on the DC Comics character Batman. The third installment of Warner Bros.' initial *Batman* film series, it is a sequel to the 1992 film *Batman Returns*, starring Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman alongside Tommy Lee Jones, Jim Carrey, Nicole Kidman, Chris O'Donnell, Michael Gough, and Pat Hingle. The plot focuses on Batman trying to stop Two-Face and the Riddler in their villainous scheme to extract confidential information from all the minds in Gotham City and use it to learn Batman's identity and bring the city under their control. In the process, he gains allegiance from a young, orphaned circus acrobat named Dick Grayson, who becomes his sidekick Robin, and meets and develops feelings for psychologist Dr. Chase Meridian, which brings him to the point to decide if he will lead a normal life or if he is destined to fight crime as Batman forever.

## Plot

In Gotham City, local vigilante Batman defuses a hostage situation orchestrated by a criminal known as Two-Face, formerly district attorney Harvey Dent. Flashbacks reveal that Two-Face was disfigured with acid by mobster Sal Maroni, which Batman failed to prevent. Edward Nygma, an eccentric researcher at Wayne Enterprises, approaches his employer, Bruce Wayne (Batman's civilian identity), with an invention that can beam television signals directly into a person's brain. Bruce rejects the device, concerned the technology could manipulate minds. After killing his supervisor and staging it as a suicide, Nygma resigns and plots revenge against Bruce, sending him riddles; criminal psychologist Chase Meridian diagnoses him as psychotic.

Bruce attends a circus with Chase; Two-Face hijacks the event and threatens to detonate a bomb unless Batman surrenders. Acrobat Dick Grayson, the youngest member of the Flying Graysons, manages to throw the bomb into the river, but Two-Face kills his family. Bruce persuades the orphaned Dick to live at Wayne Manor as his ward, and Dick discovers Bruce is Batman. Determined to avenge his family, Dick demands to join Batman in crime-fighting, hoping to kill Two-Face, but Bruce refuses.

Nygma, inspired by Two-Face, adopts a criminal persona, the Riddler, and allies with Two-Face. They commit a series of robberies to finance Nygma's new company and mass-produce his brainwave device, the "Box", which steals information from users' minds and transfers it to Nygma's, which makes him smarter in the process. At a party hosted by Nygma, Batman pursues Two-Face and is almost killed but is saved by Dick.

Batman visits Chase, who explains that she has fallen in love with Bruce. He reveals to her his secret identity. The Riddler and Two-Face, having discovered Bruce's secret through the Box, blow up the Batcave, shooting Bruce and kidnapping Chase. As Bruce recovers, he and his butler, Alfred, deduce that Nygma is the Riddler. Bruce finally accepts Dick as Batman's partner, "Robin."

At the villain's lair, Robin almost kills Two-Face but spares him. The Riddler reveals that Chase and Robin are trapped in tubes above a deadly drop, giving Batman the chance to save only one. Batman destroys the Riddler's brainwave receiver with a Batarang, draining the Riddler's mind and allowing Batman to rescue both. Two-Face corners them and determines their fate by flipping a coin, but Batman throws a handful of identical coins in the air, causing Two-Face to stumble in confusion and fall to his death.
Committed to Arkham Asylum, Nygma now exclaims that he is Batman, which leads Chase to remark that he is truly insane. Bruce resumes his crusade as Batman, with Robin as his partner.

## Cast

Michael Keaton as Bruce Wayne / Batman
Tommy Lee Jones as Harvey Dent / Two-Face

Jim Carrey as Edward Nygma / The Riddler

Nicole Kidman as Dr. Chase Meridian

Chris O'Donnell as Dick Grayson / Robin

Anthony Hopkins as Alfred Pennyworth

Pat Hingle as James Gordon

George Wallace as The Mayor

Drew Barrymore as Sugar

Debi Mazar as Spice

Ed Begley Jr. as Fred Stickley

Ofer Samra as Harvey's Thug

René Auberjonois as Dr. Burton

Larry A. Lee as John Grayson

Glory Fioramonti as Mary Grayson

En Vogue as girls on the corner who are hoping to see Batman.

Joe Grifasi as Hawkins

Jon Favreau as Assistant