"Batman: Mask of the Phantasm" tells two intertwined stories out of chronological order. In the present, Batman (Kevin Conroy) is on the trail of the Phantasm (Stacy Keach), a Grim Reaper-themed murderer picking off Gotham's gangsters. Bruce Wayne's old flame Andrea Beaumont (Dana Delany) is also back in town. Bruce's memories of how he almost chose a future with Andrea over one being Batman form the second storyline.

"Mask of the Phantasm" was made by the same team that produced the groundbreaking cartoon "Batman: The Animated Series." If you were to include "Phantasm" among the episodes of that show, it would absolutely rank among the best . Warner Bros. was so confident in the movie that it decided to bump it up from a home video release to a theatrical one — much to its creators' di

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