Please note this is a region B Blu-Ray & will require a region B or region free Blu-Ray player in order to play The eighth wonder of the world It is 1933 & vaudeville actress Ann Darrow (Oscar nominee Naomi Watts) has found herself
- like so many other New Yorkers during the Great Depression
- without the means to earn a living Unwilling to compromise & allow herself to sink into a career in burlesque she considers her limited options while aimlessly wandering the streets of Manhattan When her hunger drives her to unsuccessfully try to steal an apple from a fruit vendor&s stall she is rescued
- literally
- by filmmaker & multiple hyphenate Carl Denham (Jack Black) It seems that the entrepreneur-raconteur-adventurer is no stranger to theft having that day lifted the only existing print of his most recent & unfinished film from under his studio executives& noses when they threatened to pull his completion funds Carl has until the end of the day to get his crew onboard the Singapore-bound tramp steamer the SS Venture in hopes of completing his travelogueaction film With that the showman is certain he will finally achieve the personal greatness he knows awaits him around the corner
- & although the crew believe that corner to be Singapore Denham actually hopes to find & capture on film the mysterious place of legend Skull Island Unfortunately for Carl his headlining actress has pulled out of his project but his search for a size-four leading lady (the costumes have all been made) has fatefully led him to Ann The struggling actress is reluctant to sign on with Denham until she learns that the up-&-coming socially relevant playwright Jack Driscoll (Oscar winner Adrien Brody) is penning the screenplay
- the fees his friend Carl pays for potboiling adventure are a welcome supplement to Driscoll&s nominal income from his stage plays With his newly discovered star & coerced screenwriter reluctantly onboard Denham&s &moving picture ship& heads out of New York Harbor & toward a destiny that none aboard could possibly foresee Actors Naomi Watts Adrien Brody Jack Black Colin Hanks Kyle Chandler Thomas Kretschmann Andy Serkis Evan Dexter Parke Jamie Bell John Sumner Craig Hall Mark Hadlow Clancy Brown Peter Jackson Frank Darabont & Howard Shore Director Peter Jackson Certificate 12 years & over Year 2005 Screen Widescreen 2351 Anamorphic Languages English
- Dolby Digital (51) Subtitles English for the hearing impaired ; Arabic ; Icelandic Duration 2 hours & 59 minutes (approx)