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Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
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Genre
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Comedy,
Fantasy Comedy,
Parody/Spoof.
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Year
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1988 |
Director
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Robert Zemeckis.
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Actors
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Bob Hoskins,
Christopher Lloyd,
Joanna Cassidy,
Stubby Kaye,
Alan Tilvern,
Richard Le Parmentier,
Joel Silver,
Betsy Brantley,
Kathleen Turner,
Amy Irving,
Lou Hirsch,
Morgan Deare,
Mae Questel,
Tony Anselmo,
Joe Alaskey,
June Foray,
Richard Williams,
Wayne Allwine,
Russie Taylor,
Tony Pope,
Cherry Davis,
Peter Westy,
Frank Sinatra,
Del Baker,
Mel Blanc,
Andrew Bradford,
Pat Buttram,
Danny Capri,
Edwin Craig,
Jim Cummings,
Joel Cutrara,
Peter Diamond,
Michael Edmonds,
Charles Fleischer,
Chris Fleischer,
Laura Frances,
Jim Gallant,
Eugene Guirterrez,
Ed Herlihy,
Lindsay Holiday,
Christopher Hollosy,
David L. Lander,
Billy Mitchell,
Fred Newman,
James O'Connell,
Les Perkins,
Mary T. Radford,
Richard Ridings,
Eric B. Sindon,
John-Paul Sipla,
Paul Springer,
April Winchell.
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File
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Runtime: |
104:00 |
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dvd-rip |
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701.84 Mb |
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Storyline:
In Robert Zemeckis's trailblazing combination of animation and live-action, Hollywood's 1940s cartoon stars are a subjugated minority, living in the ghettolike "Toontown" where their movements are sharply monitored by the human power establishment. The Toons are permitted to perform in a Cotton Club-style nightspot but are forbidden to patronize the joint. One of Toontown's leading citizens, whacked-out Roger Rabbit, is framed for the murder of human nightclub owner Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye). Private detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins), whose prejudice against Toons stems from the time that his brother was killed by a falling cartoon piano, reluctantly agrees to clear Roger of the accusation. Most of the sociopolitical undertones of the original novel were weeded out out of the 1988 film version, with emphasis shifted to its basic "evil land developer" plotline —and, more enjoyably, to a stream of eye-popping special effects. With the combined facilities of animator Richard Williams, Disney, Warner Bros., Steven Spielberg's Amblin Entertainment, and George Lucas's Industrial Light and Magic, the film allows us to believe (at least for 90 minutes) that "toons" exist, and that they are capable of interacting with 3-dimensional human beings. Virtually every major cartoon character of the late 1940s shows up, with the exceptions of Felix the Cat and Popeye the Sailor, whose licensees couldn't come to terms with the producers. Of the film's newly minted Toons, the most memorable is Roger Rabbit's curvaceous bride Jessica (voiced, uncredited, by Kathleen Turner). The human element is well-represented by Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, and Joanna Cassidy; also watch for action-film producer Joel Silver as Roger Rabbit's Tex Avery-style director. |
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