Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman from Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Set in a 1947 version of Hollywood where cartoon characters (commonly referred to as "toons") and people co-exist, the film follows Eddie Valiant, a private investigator who must exonerate Roger Rabbit, a toon who has been framed for the murder of the owner of the Acme Corporation. Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights for the film's story in 1981. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film while Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. The film was released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner on June 22, 1988. It received acclaim from critics, who praised its visuals, humor, writing and performances, with critics and audiences considering it to be "groundbreaking". It grossed $329.8 million worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing films in the year. It brought a renewed interest in the Golden age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance. It won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its animation direction by Williams. In 2016, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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In a world where cartoons and movies live among humans, two mega-billion dollar companies reign supreme in the world of entertainment, Disney and Warner Bros. Once creators of joy and imagination, these corporations have become massive, monopolizing titans that now drain creativity to fuel the corporate needs. Mickey Mouse is attacked by his haters since he’s Disney’s company mascot and Bugs Bunny feels underused as his animated projects were all cancelled by WB. The two icons decide to cross the bridge between companies and bring the magic back! Meanwhile, two successful CEOs of both companies are revealed to be far more complicated than ruthless businessmen. They entered the industry because of their shared love of cartoons and movies and have struggled to make everyone happy but by following demands by the system they ended up causing more problems for the audience. An alliance is formed not to destroy the studios they helped build, but to remind them why audiences fell in love with cartoons and movies in the first place.
