In Nathan's opinion, the best film version of the books is 1979's
Murder by Decree with Christopher Plummer and James Mason.
Runners up: All That Jazz (Bob Fosse), The Jerk (Carl Reiner), The Muppet Movie (James Frawley),
Murder by Decree (Bob Clark), Real Life (Albert Brooks), Richard Pryor: Live in Concert (Jeff Margolis), Rock»n' Roll High School (Allan Arkush), Star Trek: The Motion Picture (Robert Wise), The Wanderers (Philip Kaufman)
Not exact matches
Put out of work
by Nixon's
decree outlawing masked avengers, unless they work for the government, a group of former superheroes known as the Watchmen variously reconnect after the violent
murder of their macho former member the Comedian AKA Edward Blake (Jeffrey Dean Morgan) whose demise implies a similar fate for the rest of the group.