Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Academy Award × 3
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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.
What critics thought
Nearly every critic in 1988 treated the film as a technical and comedic marvel, praising its seamless blending of live action and animation and the anarchic energy of its opening sequence — though a handful found that the film's elaborate homage machinery eventually overshadows the story it's built around. The main divide was less about whether the craft was astonishing than about whether the movie sustains its invention past the jaw-dropping opening act.
“sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last-- a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration of the kind of fun you can have with a movie camera”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“a film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed”
Janet Maslin·The New York Times
“The opening scene upstages the movie that emerges from it”
Richard Corliss·Time
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Cast & Crew
DirectorRobert Zemeckis
StarringBob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner
ComposerAlan Silvestri
Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Academy Award × 3
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.
What critics thought
Nearly every critic in 1988 treated the film as a technical and comedic marvel, praising its seamless blending of live action and animation and the anarchic energy of its opening sequence — though a handful found that the film's elaborate homage machinery eventually overshadows the story it's built around. The main divide was less about whether the craft was astonishing than about whether the movie sustains its invention past the jaw-dropping opening act.
“sheer, enchanted entertainment from the first frame to the last-- a joyous, giddy, goofy celebration of the kind of fun you can have with a movie camera”
Roger Ebert·Chicago Sun-Times
“a film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny and so crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed”
Janet Maslin·The New York Times
“The opening scene upstages the movie that emerges from it”
Richard Corliss·Time
Genres
Adventure, Animation, Comedy
Cast & Crew
DirectorRobert Zemeckis
StarringBob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy, Charles Fleischer, Kathleen Turner
ComposerAlan Silvestri
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