Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 fantasy comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Steven Spielberg and based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? . It was released by Walt Disney Pictures, under the Touchstone banner and co-produced by Amblin Entertainment. The film combines the use of traditional animation and live action with elements of film noir, and stars Bob Hoskins, Charles Fleischer, Christopher Lloyd, Kathleen Turner and Joanna Cassidy. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is set in 1947 Hollywood, where cartoon characters (referred to as "Toons") commonly interact with the studio system of Classical Hollywood cinema. The film tells the story of private investigator Eddie Valiant caught in a mystery that involves Roger Rabbit, an A-list Toon who is framed for murder.
Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights to Who Censored Roger Rabbit? in 1981. Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought Spielberg and Amblin Entertainment to help finance the film. Zemeckis was hired to direct the live-action scenes with Richard Williams overseeing animation sequences. For inspiration, Price and Seaman studied the work of Walt Disney and Warner Bros. Cartoons from the Golden Age of American animation, especially Tex Avery and Bob Clampett cartoons. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. During filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule lapsed longer than expected. However, Who Framed Roger Rabbit was released with financial success and critical acclaim. The film brought a re-emerging interest from the golden age of American animation and became the forefront for the modern era, especially the Disney Renaissance. Roger Rabbit left behind an impact that included a media franchise and the unproduced prequel, Who Discovered Roger Rabbit .
Plot
In 1947 Los Angeles, California, Toons commonly interact with the Hollywood studio system and live in a section of the city known as Toontown. Roger Rabbit is the star of "Maroon Cartoon" animated short subjects, but he has trouble following the director's commands, delaying the production. Rumors are spreading that Roger's wife Jessica is having an affair and studio head R.K. Maroon hires private investigator Eddie Valiant to look into the matter. Eddie, who for years had worked Toontown with his brother Teddy, has been angry at them ever since a Toon killed Teddy five years earlier and only reluctantly takes the job.
While at a nightclub called the Ink & Paint Club, where Jessica performs as a singer, Eddie discovers that the buxom Mrs. Rabbit is "cheating" on Roger by literally playing pattycake with Marvin Acme, owner of the Acme Corporation and Toontown. Eddie reveals this photographic evidence to Roger, who sinks into depression. Marvin Acme is found murdered the next day, and Roger becomes the prime suspect.
At the crime scene, Eddie is met by Judge Doom of the Toontown District Superior Court and his Toon Patrol weasel henchmen. Doom is eager to use "The Dip", a mixture of chemicals that can dissolve any Toon character on contact, on Roger once he can be found. Eddie encounters Baby Herman, Roger's co-star, who swears that Roger is innocent and that Acme's will, which would have left Toontown to the Toons, has gone missing; if the will is not found by midnight, Toontown would be sold at a public auction, and Eddie discovers that a conglomerate named Cloverleaf Industries, which has recently bought the Red Car trolley line and put several of Eddie's friends out of work, has placed the highest bid for the property.
Roger himself turns up at Eddie's office and pleads his innocence. Eddie begins to investigate the case deeper with his on-off girlfriend Dolores and Roger's Toon taxicab friend Benny while trying to keep Roger hidden from the Toon Patrol. Valiant is visited by Jessica, who reveals that she was forced by Maroon to get close to Acme or else he would have ruined Roger's career. Despite this knowledge, Eddie still is having problems connecting the events to try and lead himself to who might have killed Acme. That, however, happens accidentally when he sees a newsreel report on Maroon selling his studio to Cloverleaf for a large amount.
Armed with this information Eddie and Roger head to Maroon's office that night, with Eddie demanding answers. Maroon tells him that Cloverleaf would not buy the studio unless Acme sold his factory to them, but because Acme wouldn't sell Maroon's plan was to blackmail him with the photos to get him to sell. Before he can explain any further, Maroon is shot from behind by a mysterious assassin and dies. Before he's killed, however, he mentions something about the Toons being destroyed, which later proves crucial.
Eddie sees Jessica (who unbeknownst to him has Roger in her trunk) fleeing from the studio and, overcoming his anxiety, pursues her into Toontown. While chasing her into a back-alley, Jessica saves Eddie from Doom, who attempts to kill him. She shoots the Judge, which causes him to run away screaming. Jessica reveals that Maroon was killed by the same gun Doom was going to use to kill Eddie and that he also killed Marvin Acme in an attempt to get his hands on Toontown. Not only that, Roger has gone missing and has taken Eddie's car with him, and the two are forced to use Benny the cab to get back into Hollywood. However, Doom and the weasels capture them and take them to the Acme factory.
In the factory, Doom reveals what his plans are. Since the will has yet to turn up, as the sole stockholder of Cloverleaf Industries he will take control of the Acme property. In addition, he is going to destroy Toontown and raze the Maroon Cartoons property to create a freeway that will stretch to Pasadena. In addition, he reveals that in order for people to be forced to use his new freeway he will be dismantling the entire Red Car trolley fleet. To wipe out Toontown, Doom has built a vehicle with a large Dip vat that he plans to spray throughout the district, wiping out all the Toons.
At the exact moment that Doom reveals his plans for the Red Car, Roger bursts onto the scene and threatens the entire Toon Patrol. However, he gets hit by a ton of bricks and both he and Jessica are tied to a hook. As Doom starts the truck up, Eddie decides to take matters into his own hands. Using various props, he performs a comedic routine to make the weasels laugh, which in turn causes them all to die of laughter. Eddie's routine has an unintended consequence, however, as one of the weasels laughed so hard he accidentally tripped the sprayer, which began shooting a steady stream of Dip at Roger and Jessica.
Eddie and Doom then fight, using assorted Toon props found within the factory, until a mishap with some super-strong glue causes Doom to be run over with a road roller. The crushing does not kill Doom, however; instead, Doom reveals himself to be a Toon, the same one that killed Eddie's brother. Doom threatens Eddie with a number of cartoon tools up his sleeve, from an anvil to a buzz saw. Eddie manages to open the drain on the Dipmobile, showering Doom with his own mixture and dissolving him. Eddie frees Roger and Jessica, their relationship having been mended, while the Dipmobile harmlessly crashes through the warehouse wall into Toontown and immediately smashed by a Toon train. As numerous Toons enter the warehouse to see what the commotion is, Eddie discovers Acme's will written in disappearing/reappearing ink on an apparent blank piece of paper that Acme had given to Jessica, and on which Roger had later written a love poem to his wife. With the will in hand, the Toons celebrate their ownership of Toontown and sing "Smile, Darn Ya, Smile" while Roger and Jessica, as well as Eddie and Dolores, rekindle their relationships.
Cast
Main article: List of Who Framed Roger Rabbit characters
- Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant : An alcoholic private investigator who strongly dislikes Toons; five years earlier, Eddie's brother was killed by a Toon dropping a piano on his head. Producer Steven Spielberg's first choice for Eddie Valiant was Harrison Ford, but he was asking for too much money.
- Charles Fleischer provides the voice of Roger Rabbit : An A-list Toon working for "Maroon Cartoons". Roger is eventually framed for murder for the death of Marvin Acme. To facilitate Hoskins' performance, Fleischer dressed in a Roger bunny suit and "stood in" behind camera for most scenes. Animation director Richard Williams explained Roger Rabbit was a combination of "Tex Avery's cashew nut-shaped head, the swatch of red hair...like Droopy's, Oswald the Lucky Rabbit's overalls, Porky Pig's bow tie and Mickey Mouse's gloves." Fleischer also provides the voices of Benny the Cab and two members of Doom's Weasel Gang, Psycho and Greasy. Lou Hirsch, who supplied the voice for Baby Herman, was the original choice for Benny the Cab, but was replaced by Fleischer.
- Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom : The sadistic judge of Toontown District Superior Court and main antagonist of the film. It is eventually revealed that Doom is indeed a Toon, and responsible for the deaths of Eddie's brother, Marvin Acme, and R.K. Maroon. Doom is killed when Eddie opens the drain on the Dip sprayer vehicle, releasing a massive torrent of dip that eventually causes Doom to melt away. Lloyd was cast because he previously worked wit
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