V for Vendetta

Why watch

Starlit Cine editors

• Best for fans of political science fiction action; James McTeigue directs, based on Alan Moore's comic.
• Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman and Stephen Rea star, produced by Warner Bros.
• About 2 hours 12 minutes, with violent scenes.

Synopsis

V for Vendetta is a 2005 dystopian thriller film directed by James McTeigue from a screenplay by the Wachowskis. It was McTeigue's directorial debut. It is based on the 1988–89 DC Vertigo Comics limited series graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, David Lloyd, and Tony Weare. The cast includes Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Stephen Rea and John Hurt. The film, which is set in a future where a fascist totalitarian regime has subjugated the United Kingdom, centres on V (Weaving), a masked vigilante who attempts to ignite a revolution, and Evey Hammond (Portman), a young woman caught up in V's plot.

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Director & cast

• J

  James McTeigue

  Director

• H

  Hugo Weaving

  V

• N

  Natalie Portman

  Evey Hammond

• S

  Stephen Rea

• J

  John Hurt

  Adam Susan

• S

  Stephen Fry

• R

  Rupert Graves

• R

  Roger Allam

• B

  Ben Miles