Who Framed Roger Rabbit-1988 - directed by Robert Zemeckis - Winner of Four Academy Awards- Starring Bob Hopkins, Christopher Lloyd and Joanna Cassidy
Available on Amazon Prime Video via the Max Channel
A seamless mixture of life action characters and amazing animation, Who Framed Roger Rabbit, will delight all who can give themselves over to the film.
"Who Framed Roger Rabbit is the kind of movie that gets made once in a blue moon, because it represents an immense challenge to the filmmakers: They have to make a good movie while inventing new technology at the same time.
Like “2001,” “Close Encounters” and “E.T.,” this movie is not only great entertainment but a breakthrough in craftsmanship – the first film to convincingly combine real actors and animated cartoon characters in the same space in the same time and make it look real.
I’ve never seen anything like it before. Roger Rabbit and his cartoon comrades cast real shadows. They shake the hands and grab the coats and rattle the teeth of real actors. They change size and dimension and perspective as they move through a scene, and the camera isn’t locked down in one place to make it easy, either – the camera in this movie moves around like it’s in a 1940s thriller – and the cartoon characters look three-dimensional and seem to be occupying real space.
In a way, what you feel when you see a movie like this is more than appreciation. It’s gratitude. You know how easy it is to make dumb, no-brainer action movies, and how incredibly hard it is to make a movie like this, where every minute of screen time can take days or weeks of work by the animators. You’re glad they went to the trouble" Roger Ebert
I first saw Who Framed Roger Rabbit on TV shortly after it was released. Jessica Rabbit drove Roger to despair. They are both Toons. Roger is ah actor and his wife Jessica is a sexually charged gorgeous cafe singer.
Down-on-his-luck private eye Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) gets hired by cartoon producer R.K. Maroon (Alan Tilvern) to investigate an adultery scandal involving Jessica Rabbit (Kathleen Turner), the sultry wife of Maroon's biggest star, Roger Rabbit (Charles Fleischer). But when Marvin Acme (Stubby Kaye), Jessica's alleged paramour and the owner of Toontown, is found murdered, the villainous Judge Doom (Christopher Lloyd) vows to catch and destroy Roger.
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