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King Kong [videorecording] /Universal Pictures presents a WingNut Films production ; produced by Jan Blenkin, Carolynne Cunningham, Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh ; screenplay by Fran Walsh & Philippa Boyens & Peter Jackson ; directed by Peter Jackson.

Contributor(s): Watts, Naomi, 1968- | Black, Jack, 1969- | Brody, Adrien | Walsh, Fran, 1959- | Boyens, Philippa | Jackson, Peter, 1961- | Cooper, Merian C | Wallace, Edgar, 1875-1932 | Howard, James Newton | Steiner, Max, 1888-1971 | Universal Pictures (Firm) | WingNut Films (Firm).
Material type: materialTypeLabelVisual materialPublisher: Universal City, CA : Universal Pictures, 2006, 2005Edition: Widescreen format.Description: 1 videodisc (ca. 187 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.ISBN: 1417027630.Uniform titles: King Kong (Motion picture : 2005) Subject(s): King Kong (Fictitious character) -- Drama | Actresses -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama | Motion picture producers and directors -- United States -- Drama | Video recordings for the hearing impairedGenre/Form: Feature films. | Adventure films. | Suspense films. | DVD-Video discs.DDC classification: [Fic] | 813/.52
Production Credits: Directors of photography, Andrew Lesnie, Derek Whipple ; art directors, Simon Bright, Dan Hennah ; editor, Jamie Selkirk ; music, James Newton Howard ; original score, Max Steiner ; costume designer, Terry Ryan ; production designer, Grant Major ; visual effects supervisors, Scott E. Anderson, Joe Letteri, George Murphy, Ben Snow, Marc Varisco.
Cast: Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell.Summary: Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by using commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe, including the man who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.
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DVD; Dolby digital 5.1; region 1.

Soundtrack in English; English, French and Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned.

Naomi Watts, Jack Black, Adrien Brody, Thomas Kretschmann, Colin Hanks, Andy Serkis, Evan Parke, Jamie Bell.

Directors of photography, Andrew Lesnie, Derek Whipple ; art directors, Simon Bright, Dan Hennah ; editor, Jamie Selkirk ; music, James Newton Howard ; original score, Max Steiner ; costume designer, Terry Ryan ; production designer, Grant Major ; visual effects supervisors, Scott E. Anderson, Joe Letteri, George Murphy, Ben Snow, Marc Varisco.

Originally released as a motion picture in 2005.

Story by Merian C. Cooper and Edgar Wallace.

Young and beautiful actress Ann Darrow is from the world of 1930s vaudeville, who is down on her luck. She meets Carl Denham, an over-ambitious filmmaker, who brings her on an exploratory expedition to a remote island where she finds compassion and the true meaning of humanity with an ape Kong. Together, beauty and beast finally meet their fate in New York, where the filmmaker has taken and displayed the ape in the quest of finding his fame by using commercial exploitation which ultimately leads to catastrophe, including the man who falls in love with Ann and plays an unlikely hero by trying to save her from Kong and her destiny.

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