| League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Starring: Sean Connery, Shane West, Peta Wilson, Tony Curran, Stuart Townsend, Jason Flemyng, Richard Roxburgh Rated: PG-13 Run Time: 110 min. Released: 2003, FOX Director: Stephen Norrington Format: DVD Region#1 Number of Discs: 1 Synopsis: Sean Connery stars as Allan Quatermain, the world's greatest adventurer, who leads a legion of superheroes the likes of which the world has never seen, in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen. Quatermain's extraordinary league is compromised of Captain Nemo, Dracula vampiress Mina Harker, an invisible man Rodney Skinner, American secret service agent Sawyer, Dorian Gray, and Dr.Jekyll/Mr.Hyde. Richard Roxburgh plays the league's enigmatic recruiter, M. The League members are staunch individualists, outcasts in fact, with checkered pasts and singular gifts that have been both a blessing and a curse. Now they must learn to trust each other and work as a team for the very hope of civilization. With little preparation and no time to Lose, they will be transported via Captain Nemo's extraordinary submarine, The Nautilus, to the frontline of defense: Venice, Italy. There, a masked madman known as The Fantom who plans to sabotage a conference of world leaders by setting off a domino chain of explosions, sinking the entire city. The threat is catastrophic, the risks are staggering. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman has 9 hours to save the world. |
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