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Starring: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody
One of the greatest adventure stories in Hollywood history gets a new interpretation in this action drama from Academy Award-winning director Peter Jackson. In the early 1930's, Carl Denham (Jack Black) is a daring filmmaker and adventurer who has gained a reputation for his pictures documenting wildlife in remote and dangerous jungle lands; despite the objections of his backers, Denham plans to film his next project aboard an ocean vessel en route to Skull Island, an uncharted island he discovered on a rare map. Correctly assuming his cast and crew would be wary of such a journey, Denham has told them they're traveling to Singapore, but before they set sail, his leading lady drops out of the project. Needing a beautiful actress willing to take a risk, Denham finds Ann Darrow (Naomi Watts), a beautiful but down-on-her-luck vaudeville performer and offers her the role; cautious but eager to work, Darrow takes the role, and onboard the ship she strikes up a romance with Jack Driscoll (Adrian Brody), a respected playwright hired by Denham to write the script for his latest epic. When Denham and Company arrive on Skull Island, the natives react with savage violence, but they happen to be the least of their worries. Skull Island is a sanctuary for prehistoric life, and lording it over the dinosaurs and other giant beasts is Kong, a twenty-five-foot-tall gorilla who can outfight any creature on Earth. The natives kidnap Darrow, giving her to Kong as an offering to appease the giant beast; Denham and his men set out to find her, with Driscoll bravely determined to save the woman he loves. Eventually, Driscoll finds Darrow and Denham outwits Kong, intending to take the giant ape back to New York for display. But Kong has bonded with Darrow, and his attraction to her proves to be his undoing. Andy Sirkis, who provided the body movements for Gollum in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings pictures, performed similar duties on King Kong, studying gorillas so he could mimic their actions, which were then used as the basis for the special effects crew's digital animation of the great ape. ~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide
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US Release Date
12/14/05
MPAA Rating
Rated PG-13 for frightening adventure violence and some disturbing images.
Running Time
180 mins.
Locations
- New Zealand
Language
- English
Box Office Total
$218,051,260
Awards
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 2005 San Diego Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Winner of the Best Actress award at the 2005 London Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Cinematography award at the 2005 American Society of Cinematographers [ Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2005 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Score award at the 2005 Online Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2005 Broadcast Film Critics Association [Fe Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Sound award at the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Art Direction award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Outstanding Achievement in Special Effects award at the 2005 National Board of Review [Festival/Awa Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound Editing award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2005 London Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Actress award at the 2005 Online Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2005 Online Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Winner of the Best Visual Effects award at the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Winner of the Best Visual Effects award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Best Cinematography award at the 2005 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Associat Awards.
- Winner of the Best Production Design award at the 2005 Phoenix Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Score award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Production Design award at the 2005 British Academy of Film and Television Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Original Score award at the 2005 Hollywood Foreign Press Association [F Awards.
- Winner of the Top Ten Film award at the 2005 Dallas/Fort Worth Film Critics Associat Awards.
- Winner of the Best Sound Mixing award at the 2005 Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Scie Awards.
- Winner of the Top Ten Film of the Year award at the 2005 Phoenix Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Winner of the Best Picture award at the 2005 American Film Institute [Festival/Awar Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Picture award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2005 London Film Critics Association [Festi Awards.
- Winner of the Best Visual Effects award at the 2005 Phoenix Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Art Direction - Period or Fantasy Film award at the 2005 Art Directors Guild [Festival/Award] Awards.
- Winner of the Best Trailer award at the 2005 Phoenix Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
- Nominated for a Best Director award at the 2005 Chicago Film Critics Association [Fest Awards.
Distributor
- Universal Pictures
