Storyline
'Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Directors
Cast
Charles Fleischer, Joel Silver, Mickie McGowan, Jack Angel, Frank Welker, Bob Hoskins, Joanna Cassidy, June Foray, Amy Irving, Mae Questel, Christopher Lloyd, Alan Tilvern, Richard LeParmentier, Nancy Cartwright, Wayne Allwine, Mel Blanc, Lou Hirsch, Kathleen Turner, Betsy Brantley, Frank Sinatra, Stubby Kaye, Richard Williams
Trailer
Reviews
100
Chicago Reader
Combines live-action and animation with breathtaking wizardry... Alternately hilarious, frightening, and awesome.
100
San Francisco Chronicle
What is astonishing about this movie is how all the elements are so deftly mixed - the technology of real sets and people interwoven with the cartoon world, and yet Zemeckis hardly sacrifices a beat in laying out a curlicuing '40s-style thriller. [22 June 1988]
100
If you don’t like Who Framed Roger Rabbit, have your pulse checked... You'll forget yourself right through to the end when Porky Pig, dressed as a cop, says "M-move along, there's n-nothing more to s-see folks." [24 June 1988]
100
Chicago Sun-Times
The movie is funny, but it's more than funny, it's exhilarating.
100
Christian Science Monitor
It's the year's cleverest comedy in more ways than one. The animated sequences are brilliant... Most important, the story also has dark overtones that lend a hint of seriousness to what could have been just silly. [24 June 1988]
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