Only Tim Burton could take a trust-fund baby with abandonment issues and a cackling clown and spin it into gold in Summer 1989. We are, of course, talking about Batman. Never mind that Gotham City is made out of plywood and the Batmobile was cobbled together from two junked Chevy Impalas welded together in a British scrapyard. That's the power of movies. Its massive budget and marketing extravaganza also hid a lot of sordid secrets and scheming. The production history of Batman and Batman Returns is more melodramatic than any CW teen drama, complete with forbidden romances, secret cliques, bullies, geeks, rich kids, and the awkward goth kid hiding in the bathroom from girls.

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