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Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Theatrical release poster depicting filmstrips shaped like Roger Rabbit. The title "Who Framed Roger Rabbit" and a text "It's the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble." are shown at the left top of the image.

Theatrical release poster by Steven Chorney
Directed by Robert Zemeckis
Screenplay by Jeffrey Toll
Peter S. Seaman
Based on Who Censored Roger Rabbit?
by Gary Thou. Wolf
Produced past
  • Frank Marshall
  • Robert Watts
Starring
  • Bob Hoskins
  • Christopher Lloyd
  • Charles Fleischer
  • Chubby Kaye
  • Joanna Cassidy
Cinematography Dean Cundey
Edited by Arthur Schmidt
Music by Alan Silvestri

Production
companies
  • Touchstone Pictures[1]
  • Amblin Entertainment[1]
  • Silver Screen Partners[i]
Distributed by Buena Vista Pictures Distribution[i]

Release appointment
  • June 22, 1988 (1988-06-22)

Running fourth dimension

 104 minutes[2]
Land U.s.a.
Language English language
Budget $50.6 million[nb 1]
Box office $329.8 meg[6]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-activeness/blithe one-act mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted past Jeffrey Cost 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. Gear up in a 1947 version of Hollywood where cartoon characters (commonly referred to as "toons") and people co-be, the film follows Eddie Valiant, a individual investigator who must exonerate Roger Rabbit, a toon who has been framed for the murder of the Acme Corporation's owner.

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 visitor, 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 grouping of animators. While filming, the product upkeep began to speedily expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected.

The moving-picture show was released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner on June 22, 1988. It received acclaim from critics, who praised its visuals, sense of humour, writing, and performances, with critics and audiences considering it to be "groundbreaking". It grossed $329.8 million worldwide, condign 1 of the highest-grossing films of the twelvemonth. Information technology brought a renewed interest in the Golden age of American animation, spearheading mod American blitheness and the Disney Renaissance.[7] It won iii Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Audio Effects Editing and All-time Visual Effects and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its animation management past Williams.

In 2016, information technology was selected for preservation in the United states of america National Film Registry past the Library of Congress equally being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[8] [nine]

Plot [edit]

In 1947 Los Angeles, "toons" regularly interact with existent people, deed in animated shorts and films, and reside in an area known as Toontown. Private detective Eddie Valiant in one case worked closely with toons alongside his brother Teddy merely sank into depression and alcoholism later Teddy was murdered by a toon during a case.

R.K. Maroon, caput of Maroon Cartoon Studios, is concerned about the recent poor performances of one of his stars, Roger Rabbit. Maroon hires Eddie to investigate rumors well-nigh Roger's voluptuous toon wife Jessica being romantically involved with Marvin Acme, possessor of both the Peak Corporation and Toontown. After watching Jessica perform at an underground nightclub, Eddie secretly photographs her and Acme playing patty-cake in her dressing room, which he shows to Roger, who becomes distraught nearly his wife adulterous on him.

The next morning time, Summit is discovered expressionless in his factory, and evidence points to Roger beingness responsible. While investigating, Eddie meets Judge Doom, Toontown'due south sinister superior court gauge, who uses a chemical substance capable of destroying the otherwise invulnerable toons known as "The Dip". Eddie later runs into Roger'southward toon co-star, Infant Herman, who believes Roger is innocent and that Acme's missing will, which will give Toontown'south ownership to the toons, may be the key to his murder. In his part, Eddie finds Roger, who begs him to assistance exonerate him. Eddie reluctantly hides Roger in a local bar, where his girlfriend Dolores works. Jessica approaches Eddie and says that Maroon forced her to pose for the photographs and then he could blackmail Summit.

Doom and his toon weasel henchmen discover Roger, but he and Eddie escape with help from Benny, a toon taxicab. They flee to a theater, where Eddie tells Roger nearly the tragic loss of Teddy. As they leave with Dolores, Eddie sees a newsreel detailing the sale of Maroon Cartoons to Cloverleaf Industries, a mysterious corporation that bought the city'southward Pacific Electric transit organization soon before Acme's murder. Eddie goes to the studio to interrogate Maroon, leaving Roger to guard exterior, only he is kidnapped by Jessica. Maroon tells Eddie that he blackmailed Acme into selling his company and then he could sell the studio, then admits he only did so out of fright for the prophylactic of the toons. Maroon is and then murdered by an unseen assaulter earlier he tin explain the consequences of the missing will. Eddie spots Jessica fleeing the scene, and assuming she is the culprit, follows her into Toontown. Once he finds her, Jessica reveals that it was Doom who killed Acme and Maroon and that the erstwhile gave her his will for safekeeping, but soon discovered it was blank. She and Eddie are then captured by Doom and the weasels.

At the Acme manufactory, Doom reveals himself as the sole shareholder of Cloverleaf Industries and explains his plot to destroy Toontown with a automobile fueled with dip to build a freeway full of attractions in its place and force people to drive it one time he has the transit system decommissioned to control all the profits. Roger unsuccessfully attempts to salvage Jessica and the couple is tied onto a hook in front end of the car'south water cannon. Eddie performs a comedic vaudeville act total of pratfalls, causing the weasels to die of laughter; Eddie kicks their leader into the car's dip vat. Eddie then fights Doom, who is flattened by a steamroller but survives, revealing himself as a disguised toon. Doom reveals himself as Teddy's killer, and Eddie kills Doom by emptying the auto'due south supply onto the mill floor and melting him.

The emptied machine crashes through the wall into Toontown, where information technology is destroyed by a train. As the police and many dozens of toons get together at the scene, Eddie reveals Doom's guilt in Meridian's murder to the onetime, clearing Roger's proper noun. Eddie discovers that Roger inadvertently wrote a love letter of the alphabet for Jessica on Acme's will, which was written in disappearing/reappearing ink, and Toontown's ownership is handed over to the toons. Having regained his humor now that he has avenged Teddy, Eddie happily enters Toontown with Dolores alongside Roger, Jessica, and the other toons.

Cast [edit]

  • Bob Hoskins as Eddie Valiant
  • Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom
  • Charles Fleischer as the voices of Roger Rabbit, Benny the Cab, Greasy, and Psycho
  • Stubby Kaye as Marvin Elevation
  • Joanna Cassidy as Dolores
  • Alan Tilvern as R.K. Maroon
  • Richard LeParmentier as Lt. Santino
  • Richard Ridings as Angelo
  • Lou Hirsch as the vocalization of Baby Herman
  • David L. Lander as the vox of Smart Ass
  • Fred Newman as the voice of Stupid
  • Kathleen Turner as the voice of Jessica Rabbit (uncredited)
    • Amy Irving equally the singing voice of Jessica Rabbit
  • June Foray as the voices of Wheezy and Lena Hyena

Mel Blanc voiced Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, Tweety Bird, and Sylvester the Cat. The movie was one of the final productions in which he voiced his Looney Tunes characters before his expiry a year after in 1989. Joe Alaskey voiced Yosemite Sam (in place of Blanc), Wayne Allwine voiced Mickey Mouse, Tony Anselmo voiced Donald Duck (also voiced past Clarence Nash via archive recordings), Tony Pope voiced Goofy (besides partially voiced by Bill Farmer[ten]) and Disney'southward Big Bad Wolf, Mae Questel reprised her function of Betty Boop, Russi Taylor voiced Minnie Mouse and some birds, Pat Buttram, Jim Cummings (imitating Andy Devine), and Jim Gallant (imitating Walter Brennan) voiced Eddie's toon bullets, Les Perkins voiced Mr. Toad, Mary T. Radford voiced Hyacinth Hippo from Fantasia, Nancy Cartwright voiced the toon shoe, Cherry Davis voiced Woody Woodpecker, Peter Westy voiced Pinocchio, and Frank Welker voiced Dumbo. Animation director Richard Williams voiced Droopy. April Winchell voiced Mrs. Herman and Baby Herman's "baby noises". Archival recordings of Frank Sinatra were used for the Singing Sword, whose character pattern is based on Sinatra.

Product [edit]

Evolution [edit]

Walt Disney Productions purchased the film rights to Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit? shortly afterwards its publication in 1981. Ron Due west. Miller, and so president of Disney, saw it as a perfect opportunity to produce a blockbuster.[eleven] Jeffrey Price and Peter Due south. Seaman were hired to write the script, penning ii drafts. Robert Zemeckis offered his services equally director in 1982,[12] but Disney declined equally his two previous films (I Wanna Concord Your Hand and Used Cars) had been box-office bombs. Betwixt 1981 and 1983 Disney developed test footage with Darrell Van Citters as animation director, Paul Reubens voicing Roger Rabbit, Peter Renaday as Eddie Valiant, and Russi Taylor every bit Jessica Rabbit.[14] The projection was revamped in 1985 past Michael Eisner, the then-new CEO of Disney. Amblin Entertainment, which consisted of Steven Spielberg, Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy, were approached to produce Who Framed Roger Rabbit aslope Disney. The original upkeep was projected at $fifty million, which Disney felt was too expensive.[15]

The motion picture was finally greenish-lit when the budget decreased to $30 one thousand thousand, which at the time notwithstanding made it the nearly expensive animated film e'er green-lit.[15] Walt Disney Studios chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg argued that the hybrid of live-action and animation would "salvage" Disney's blitheness section. Spielberg's contract included an extensive amount of creative control and a large percentage of the box-part profits. Disney kept all merchandising rights.[xv] Spielberg convinced Warner Bros., Fleischer Studios, Rex Features Syndicate, Felix the Cat Productions, Turner Entertainment, and Universal Pictures/Walter Lantz Productions to "lend" their characters to appear in the motion-picture show with (in some cases) stipulations on how those characters were portrayed; for example, Disney'southward Donald Duck and Warner Bros.' Daffy Duck appear every bit equally talented dueling pianists, and Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny as well share a scene. Autonomously from this understanding, and some of the original Looney Tunes voice artists beingness hired to reprise their roles, Warner Bros. and the various other companies were non involved in the product of Roger Rabbit. However, executives at Warner Bros. expressed displeasure at the animators using the Daffy blueprint by Bob Clampett and demanded they use the design past Chuck Jones; in response to this, Zemeckis had separate artists animate Daffy using Jones' design to satisfy Warner Bros. to apply Clampett's design in the final flick. The producers were unable to larn the rights to use Popeye, Tom and Jerry, Trivial Lulu, Casper, or the Terrytoons for appearances from their corresponding owners (King Features, Turner, Western Publishing, Harvey Comics, and Viacom).[12]

Terry Gilliam was offered the adventure to direct, but he found the project too technically challenging. ("Pure laziness on my part," he afterwards admitted, "I completely regret that decision.")[16] Robert Zemeckis was hired to direct in 1985, based on the success of Romancing the Stone and Back to the Future. Disney executives were continuing to suggest Van Citters direct the animation, but Spielberg and Zemeckis decided against it.[15] Richard Williams was eventually hired to direct the animation. Zemeckis wanted the film to imbue "Disney's high quality of animation, Warner Bros.' characterization, and Tex Avery humour."[17]

Casting [edit]

Harrison Ford was Spielberg's original choice to play Eddie Valiant, just his price was besides high.[xviii] Chevy Chase was the 2d choice, but he was non interested.[nineteen] Bill Murray was likewise considered for the role just, due to his idiosyncratic method of receiving offers for roles, Murray missed out on information technology.[20] Eddie White potato reportedly turned downward the role as he misunderstood the concept of cartoon characters and human being beings co-existing; he later regretted this decision.[21] [22] Robin Williams, Robert Redford, Jack Nicholson, Sylvester Stallone, Wallace Shawn, Ed Harris, Charles Grodin and Don Lane were also considered for the role.[nineteen] Ultimately Bob Hoskins was chosen non only because he's a great actor, had "hope", and lastly looked like he belonged in that era.[23] To facilitate Hoskins' performance, Charles Fleischer dressed in a Roger Rabbit costume and "stood in" behind camera for most scenes.[24] Williams explained Roger was a combination of "Tex Avery'south cashew nut-shaped head, the swatch of red hair... like Droopy's, Goofy'southward overalls, Porky Grunter's bow tie, Mickey Mouse'southward gloves, and Bugs Bunny-like cheeks and ears."[12]

Kathleen Turner provided the uncredited vocalisation of Jessica Rabbit, Roger Rabbit's wife.[25]

Tim Curry originally auditioned for the role of Judge Doom but, afterward, the producers found him too terrifying.[26] Christopher Lee was also considered for it merely turned it down.[19] John Cleese as well expressed interest for the role only was deemed non scary enough.[19] Peter O'Toole, F. Murray Abraham, Roddy McDowall, Eddie Deezen and Sting were also considered for the role.[19] Christopher Lloyd was bandage because he previously worked with Zemeckis and Spielberg on Back to the Hereafter. He compared his part every bit Doom to his previous role every bit the Klingon commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock, both being overly evil characters which he considered beingness "fun to play".[27] He avoided blinking his eyes while on photographic camera to perfectly portray the character.

Fleischer too voiced Benny the Cab, Psycho, and Greasy. Lou Hirsch, who voiced Babe Herman, was the original choice for Benny the Cab, simply he was replaced by Fleischer.[24]

Writing [edit]

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Price and Seaman were brought aboard to continue writing the script once Spielberg and Zemeckis were hired. For inspiration, the two writers studied the piece of work of Walt Disney and Warner Bros. Cartoons from the Gilt Historic period of American animation, peculiarly Tex Avery and Bob Clampett cartoons. The Cloverleaf streetcar subplot was inspired by Chinatown.[12] Price and Seaman said that "the Red Car plot, suburb expansion, urban and political corruption really did happen," Price stated. "In Los Angeles, during the 1940s, car and tire companies teamed upwardly confronting the Pacific Electric Railway system and bought them out of business. Where the freeway runs in Los Angeles is where the Red Machine used to exist." In Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, the toons were comic-strip characters rather than movie stars.[12]

During the writing process, Price and Seaman were unsure of whom to include equally the villain in the plot. They wrote scripts that had either Jessica Rabbit or Babe Herman as the villain, simply they made their last decision with the newly created character Judge Doom. Doom was supposed to take an blithe vulture sit on his shoulder, but this was deleted due to the technical challenges this posed. Doom would also have a suitcase of 12 small animated kangaroos that act equally a jury, by having their joeys pop out of their pouches, each with letters, when put together would spell You ARE GUILTY. This was likewise cut for budget and technical reasons.[28]

The Toon Patrol (Stupid, Smart Ass, Greasy, Wheezy, and Psycho) satirizes the Seven Dwarfs (Doc, Grumpy, Happy, Sleepy, Inconversable, Sneezy, and Dopey), who appeared in Snowfall White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). Originally, seven weasels were to mimic the dwarfs complement, but eventually, 2 of them, Slimey and Sleazy, were written out of the script. Further references included The "Ink and Pigment Order" resembling the Harlem Cotton Club, while Zemeckis compared Judge Doom's invention of the Dip to eliminate all the toons as Hitler'southward Final Solution.[12] Doom was originally the hunter who killed Bambi's female parent.[28] Benny the Cab was start conceived to be a Volkswagen Protrude before being changed to a taxi cab. Ideas originally conceived for the story also included a sequence gear up at Marvin Acme's funeral, whose attendees included Eddie, Foghorn Leghorn, Mickey Mouse, Minnie Mouse, Tom and Jerry, Heckle and Jeckle, Flake northward' Dale, Felix the True cat, Herman and Katnip, Mighty Mouse, Superman, Popeye, Olive Oyl, Bluto, Clarabelle Cow, Horace Horsecollar, the Seven Dwarfs, Infant Huey, and Casper the Friendly Ghost in cameo appearances. All the same, the scene was cut for pacing reasons and never made information technology by the storyboard stage.[28] Before finally like-minded on Who Framed Roger Rabbit as the film's title, working titles included Murder in Toontown, Toons, Dead Toons Don't Pay Bills, The Toontown Trial, Trouble in Toontown, and Eddie Goes to Toontown.[29]

Filming [edit]

Williams admitted he was "openly disdainful of the Disney bureaucracy"[30] and refused to work in Los Angeles. To accommodate him and his animators, production moved to England where a studio, Walt Disney Animation United kingdom (subsuming Richard Williams Animation), was created for this purpose;[31] [32] located at The Forum, 74-eighty Camden Street, in Camden Town, London, while the live-action production was based at Elstree Studios. Disney and Spielberg besides told Williams that in render for doing the moving-picture show, they would help distribute his unfinished motion-picture show The Thief and the Cobbler.[30] Supervising animators included Van Citters, Dale Baer, Michael Peraza, Joe Ranft, Tom Sito, James Baxter, David Bowers, Andreas Deja, Mike Gabriel, Chris Jenkins, Phil Nibbelink, Nik Ranieri, Simon Wells, and Bruce W. Smith, while Williams and associate producer Don Hahn spearheaded the blitheness production. The blitheness product was dissever betwixt Walt Disney Blitheness U.k. and a specialized unit in Los Angeles, set up by Walt Disney Feature Animation and supervised by Baer.[33] The production budget connected to escalate, while the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. When the upkeep reached $40 million, Disney CEO Michael Eisner seriously considered shutting down product, but studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg talked him out of it.[30] Despite the budget escalating to over $50 million, Disney moved forrad on product because they were enthusiastic to work with Spielberg.[xv]

VistaVision cameras installed with motility-control technology were used for the photography of the live-action scenes, which would be composited with animation. Rubber mannequins of Roger Rabbit, Babe Herman, and the Toon Patrol portrayed the blithe characters during rehearsals to teach the actors where to await when interim with "open air and imaginative cartoon characters".[24] Many of the live-action props held past cartoon characters were shot on set with the props either held by robotic artillery or manipulated with strings, similar to a marionette. For example, a test was shot at ILM with an actor playing the detective would climb down a burn escape and the rabbit is supposed to follow and he knocks downwards some stacked boxes. Naturally, there wouldn't be a rabbit during the exam, then the camera would get downward the fire escape and the boxes would fall when a wire was pulled.[23] The actor who played the voice of Roger, Charles Fleischer, insisted on wearing a Roger Rabbit costume while on the gear up, to get into character.[24] Filming began on Nov ii, 1986, and lasted for vii and a half months at Elstree Studios, with an additional calendar month in Los Angeles and at Industrial Lite & Magic (ILM) for blue screen effects of Toontown. The archway of Desilu Studios served as the fictional Maroon Cartoon Studio lot.[34]

Blitheness and post-product [edit]

Post-production lasted for 14 months. Because the film was made before computer animation and digital compositing were widely used, all the animation was done using cels and optical compositing.[24] Start, the animators and layout artists were given black-and-white printouts of the live-activity scenes (known as "photostats"), and they placed their animation paper on pinnacle of them. The artists and then drew the animated characters in human relationship to the alive-action footage. Due to Zemeckis' dynamic camera moves, the animators had to face the challenge of ensuring the characters were not "slipping and slipping all over the place."[24] To ensure this didn't happen and that the characters looked real, Zemeckis and Spielberg met for about an hour and a half and came up with the thought that, "If the rabbit sits downward in an one-time chair, dust comes up. He should e'er be touching something real."[23] Later on the crude blitheness was complete, it was run through the normal procedure of traditional animation until the cels were shot on the rostrum camera with no groundwork. The animated footage was and then sent to ILM for compositing, where technicians animated 3 lighting layers (shadows, highlights, and tone mattes) separately, to make the drawing characters await 3-dimensional and give the illusion of the characters beingness affected by the lighting on ready.[24] Finally, the lighting effects were optically composited on to the cartoon characters, who were, in turn, composited into the alive-action footage. Ane of the most hard effects in the flick was Jessica's dress in the nightclub scene because it had to flash sequins, an effect achieved by filtering light through a plastic bag scratched with steel wool.[12]

Music [edit]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Soundtrack from the Motion Picture)
Soundtrack album by

Alan Silvestri and the London Symphony Orchestra
Released June 22, 1988
Recorded April 1988, CTS Studios, Wembley, U.k.
Genre Soundtrack, film score
Length 45:57
Label Buena Vista

Regular Zemeckis collaborator Alan Silvestri composed the picture show score, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra (LSO) under the direction of Silvestri. Zemeckis joked that "the British [musicians] could not keep upward with Silvestri's jazz tempo". The performances of the music themes written for Jessica Rabbit were entirely improvised by the LSO. The work of American composer Carl Stalling heavily influenced Silvestri'south work on Who Framed Roger Rabbit.[24] The picture'due south soundtrack was originally released by Buena Vista Records on June 22, 1988, and reissued by Walt Disney Records on CD on April 16, 2002.[35]

On January 23, 2018, Intrada Records released a iii-CD gear up with the complete score, alternates, and a remastered version of the original 1988 album, plus music from 3 Roger Rabbit brusque films, composed and conducted by Bruce Broughton and James Horner.[36]

The moving-picture show features performances of "Hungarian Rhapsody" (Tony Anselmo and Mel Blanc), "Why Don't Yous Do Right?" (Amy Irving), "The Merry-Become-Round Bankrupt Downward" (Charles Fleischer), and "Smiling, Darn Ya, Smiling!" (Toon Chorus).

Release [edit]

Michael Eisner, then-CEO, and Roy E. Disney, vice chairman of The Walt Disney Company, felt the film was as well risqué with sexual references.[37] Eisner and Zemeckis disagreed over various elements of it only since Zemeckis had final cutting privilege, he refused to make alterations.[24] Roy Eastward. Disney, head of Feature Animation forth with studio chief Jeffrey Katzenberg, felt it was appropriate to release the motion picture under their Touchstone Pictures imprint instead of the traditional Walt Disney Pictures banner.[37]

The movie opened in the U.s.a. on June 22, 1988, grossing $eleven,226,239 in i,045 theaters during its opening weekend, ranking first place at the The states box office.[38] It was Buena Vista'southward biggest opening weekend e'er.[39] Information technology went on to gross $156,452,370 in the Usa and Canada and $173,351,588 internationally, coming to a worldwide full of $329,803,958. At the time of release, it was the 20th-highest-grossing film of all time.[40] It was also the 2nd-highest-grossing film of 1988, behind only Rain Man.[41] The picture show was accompanied by the NFB short, The Cat Came Back. In the United Kingdom, the movie likewise ready a record opening for a Disney film.[42]

Domicile media [edit]

The film was first released on VHS on October 12, 1989,[43] and on DVD on September 28, 1999.

On March 25, 2003, Buena Vista Home Entertainment released it every bit a part of the "Vista Series" line in a two-disc drove with many extra features including a documentary, Backside the Ears: The True Story of Roger Rabbit; a deleted scene in which a pig'south head is "tooned" onto Eddie's; the three Roger Rabbit shorts, Tummy Problem, Roller Coaster Rabbit, and Trail Mix-Upwardly; too as a booklet and interactive games. The only brusque on the 2003 VHS release was Tummy Trouble. The 2003 DVD release presents the motion picture in Full Screen (one.33:1) on Disc 1 and Widescreen (1.85:ane) on Disc two.

On March 12, 2013, the film was released by Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment on Blu-ray and DVD philharmonic pack special edition for the picture'south 25th anniversary.[44] [45] The film was besides digitally restored by Disney for its 25th anniversary. Frame-by-frame digital restoration was done past Prasad Studios removing dirt, tears, scratches, and other defects.[46] [47]

Disney released the film on Ultra HD Blu-ray on December 7, 2021 (which the Ultra Hd Blu-ray release of Who Framed Roger Rabbit was the just adult-oriented film to exist released under the Disney label since Never Cry Wolf).[48] [49]

Reception [edit]

Critical response [edit]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit received near-universal acclamation from critics, making Business Insider 'southward "best one-act movies of all time, according to critics" list.[50] Review aggregator Rotten Tomatoes gives the pic an approval rating of 97% based on 66 reviews, and an boilerplate rating of 8.4/x. The site's critical consensus reads, "Who Framed Roger Rabbit is an innovative and entertaining flick that features a groundbreaking mix of live action and animation, with a touching and original story to boot."[51] Aggregator Metacritic has calculated a weighted boilerplate score of 83 out of 100 based on fifteen reviews, indicating "universal acclaim".[52] Who Framed Roger Rabbit was placed on 43 critics' top ten lists, third to merely The Sparse Blue Line and Bull Durham in 1988.[53] Audiences polled past CinemaScore gave the moving picture an boilerplate grade of "A" on an A+ to F scale.[54]

Roger Ebert of the Chicago Sun-Times gave the motion picture four stars out of 4, predicting it would carry "the type of discussion of mouth that money tin can't buy. This moving-picture show is not only great amusement only [besides] a quantum in craftsmanship."[55] Gene Siskel of the Chicago Tribune praised the picture'south "dazzling, jaw-dropping opening four-infinitesimal sequence", while noting that the sequence alone took nearly 9 months to animate.[56] In reviewing the movie, Siskel gave the film three-and-a-half stars out of four.[57] Ebert and his colleague Siskel spent a considerable amount of time in the Siskel & Ebert episode in which they reviewed the film analyzing its painstaking filmmaking.[58] In evaluating their meridian ten films of the year, Siskel ranked information technology number two[59] while Ebert ranked it as number 8.[60] Janet Maslin of The New York Times commented that this is "a film whose best moments are so novel, so deliriously funny and and then crazily unexpected that they truly must be seen to be believed."[61] Desson Thomson of The Washington Post considered Roger Rabbit to exist "a definitive collaboration of pure talent. Zemeckis had Walt Disney Pictures' enthusiastic backing, producer Steven Spielberg'due south pull, Warner Bros.'southward blessing, Canadian animator Richard Williams' ink and paint, Mel Blanc'due south vocalization, Jeffrey Toll and Peter S. Seaman'due south witty, frenetic screenplay, George Lucas' Industrial Lite and Magic, and Bob Hoskins' comical operation as the burliest, shaggiest private eye."[62] Factor Shalit on the Today Evidence as well praised the motion picture, calling it "one of the most extraordinary movies ever made".[63] Filmsite.org called information technology "a technically-marvelous film" and a "landmark" that resulted from "unprecedented cooperation" between Warner Bros. and Disney.[64] On CNN'due south 2019 miniseries The Movies, Tom Hanks called it the "about complicated movie always made."[65]

Richard Corliss, writing for Time, gave a mixed review. "The opening drawing works just fine but besides fine. The opening scene upstages the movie that emerges from it," he said. Corliss was mainly annoyed by the homages to the Golden Historic period of American animation.[66] Animation fable Chuck Jones made a rather scathing attack on the film in his volume Chuck Jones Conversations. Amid his complaints, Jones accused Robert Zemeckis of robbing Richard Williams of whatsoever creative input and ruining the piano duel that both Williams and he storyboarded.[67]

Accolades [edit]

Legacy [edit]

Who Framed Roger Rabbit marks the first and just fourth dimension in animation history that Disney's Mickey Mouse and Warner Bros.' Bugs Bunny (also as Donald Duck and Daffy Duck) have ever officially appeared on-screen together. Warner Bros. agreed that their biggest cartoon stars, Bugs Bunny and Daffy Duck, would each receive an equal amount of screen fourth dimension as Disney'south biggest cartoon stars, Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck.

The critical and commercial success of the film rekindled an interest in the Golden Age of American animation, and sparked the modern animation scene, as well every bit the Disney Renaissance.[83] In Nov 1988, a few months afterward the film's release, Roger Rabbit fabricated his guest advent in the live-activity and animated idiot box special broadcast on NBC called Mickey's 60th Birthday in which to celebrate the 60th anniversary of Mickey Mouse. In 1991, Walt Disney Imagineering began to develop Mickey'south Toontown for Disneyland, based on the Toontown that appeared in the motion-picture show. The attraction also features a ride called Roger Rabbit's Car Toon Spin.[37] 3 theatrical animated shorts were also produced: Tummy Trouble was shown earlier Beloved, I Shrunk the Kids; Roller Coaster Rabbit was shown before Dick Tracy; and Trail Mix-up was shown before A Far Off Identify.[84] [85] The moving picture also inspired a brusk-lived comic book and video game spin-offs, including two PC games, the Japanese version of The Bugs Bunny Crazy Castle (which features Roger instead of Bugs), a 1989 game released on the Nintendo Entertainment System, and a 1991 game released on the Game Boy.[85]

In December 2016, the pic was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[9]

Controversies [edit]

With the film's LaserDisc release, Variety start reported in March 1994 that observers uncovered several scenes of antics from the animators that supposedly featured brief nudity of Jessica Rabbit. While undetectable when played at the usual rate of 24 moving-picture show frames per 2d, the LaserDisc histrion allowed the viewer to accelerate frame-past-frame to uncover these visuals. Whether or non they were actually intended to depict the nudity of the graphic symbol remains unknown.[86] [87] Many retailers said that within minutes of the LaserDisc debut, their entire inventory was sold out. The run was fueled by media reports about the controversy, including stories on CNN and various newspapers.[88]

Some other often debated scene includes one in which Baby Herman extends his heart finger as he passes nether a adult female's dress and re-emerges with drool on his lip.[87] [89] Too, controversy exists over the scene where Daffy Duck and Donald Duck are playing a piano duel, and during his trademark ranting gibberish, information technology is claimed that Donald calls Daffy a "goddamn stupid nigger"; withal, this is a misinterpretation, with the line from the script existence "doggone stubborn niggling—."[ninety] [91] [92]

Legal issue [edit]

Gary K. Wolf, author of the novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, filed a lawsuit in 2001 confronting The Walt Disney Company. He claimed he was owed royalties based on the value of "gross receipts" and merchandising sales. In 2002, the trial court in the example ruled that these merely referred to actual greenbacks receipts Disney collected and denied Wolf's claim. In its January 2004 ruling, the California Court of Appeal disagreed, finding that skillful testimony introduced by Wolf regarding the customary utilize of "gross receipts" in the amusement concern could support a broader reading of the term. The ruling vacated the trial court's guild in favor of Disney and remanded the case for farther proceedings.[93] In a March 2005 hearing, Wolf estimated he was owed $7 million. Disney'southward attorneys not but disputed the claim but also said Wolf owed Disney $500,000–$1 1000000 because of an accounting error discovered in preparing for the lawsuit.[94] Wolf won the decision in 2005, receiving betwixt $180,000 and $400,000 in damages.[95]

Proposed sequel [edit]

Spielberg discussed a sequel in 1989 with J. J. Abrams as writer and Zemeckis as producer. Abrams's outline was eventually abased.[96] Nat Mauldin was hired to write a prequel titled Roger Rabbit: The Toon Platoon, set in 1941 to 1943. Similar to the previous movie, Toon Platoon featured many cameo appearances by characters from The Aureate Historic period of American Animation. It began with Roger Rabbit'southward early years, living on a farm in the midwestern Us.[83] With human Ritchie Davenport, Roger travels west to seek his female parent, in the process meeting Jessica Krupnick (his hereafter wife), a struggling Hollywood extra. While Roger and Ritchie are enlisting in the Army, Jessica is kidnapped and forced to make pro-Nazi German language broadcasts. Roger and Ritchie must save her by going into Nazi-occupied Europe accompanied by several other Toons in their Ground forces platoon. After their triumph, Roger and Ritchie are given a Hollywood Boulevard parade, and Roger is finally reunited with his mother and father, Bugs Bunny.[83] [97]

Mauldin afterwards retitled his script Who Discovered Roger Rabbit. Spielberg left the project when deciding he could not satirize Nazis after directing Schindler's List.[98] [99] Eisner commissioned a rewrite in 1997 with Sherri Stoner and Deanna Oliver. Although they kept Roger's search for his mother, Stoner and Oliver replaced the WWII subplot with Roger's inadvertent rise to stardom on Broadway and Hollywood. Disney was impressed and Alan Menken was hired to write five songs for the film and offered his services as executive producer.[99] One of the songs, "This Only Happens in the Movies", was recorded in 2008 on the debut album of Broadway actress Kerry Butler.[100] Eric Goldberg was set to be the new blitheness director, and began to redesign Roger'due south new character appearance.[99]

Spielberg became busy establishing DreamWorks, while Frank Marshall and Kathleen Kennedy decided to remain equally producers. Test footage for Who Discovered Roger Rabbit was shot quondam in 1998 at the Disney animation unit in Lake Buena Vista, Florida; the results were a mix of CGI, traditional animation, and live-activity that did not please Disney. A 2d exam had the toons completely converted to CGI, only this was dropped every bit the moving picture'south projected budget would escalate past $100 million. Eisner felt information technology was best to cancel the motion-picture show.[99] In March 2003, producer Don Hahn was doubtful nearly a sequel being made, arguing that public tastes had changed since the 1990s with the rise of computer animation. "There was something very special nearly that time when animation was not as much in the forefront as it is now."[101]

In December 2007, Marshall stated that he was still "open" to the idea,[102] and in April 2009, Zemeckis revealed he was still interested.[103] According to a 2009 MTV News story, Jeffrey Price and Peter Southward. Seaman were writing a new script for the project, and the animated characters would exist in traditional two-dimensional, while the residuum would be in motion capture.[104] However, in 2010, Zemeckis said that the sequel would remain hand-drawn animated and live-action sequences will be filmed, just like in the original flick, but the lighting effects on the cartoon characters and some of the props that the toons handle will be done digitally.[105] Also in 2010, Hahn, who was the film's original associate producer, confirmed the sequel'southward development in an interview with Empire. He stated, "Yep, I couldn't possibly comment. I deny completely, but yeah... if you're a fan, pretty soon you're going to be very, very, very happy."[106] In 2010, Bob Hoskins stated he was interested in the project, reprising his role as Eddie Valiant.[ commendation needed ] Nonetheless, he retired from interim in 2012 afterward being diagnosed with Parkinson's illness a year earlier, and died from pneumonia in 2014.[107] Marshall has confirmed that the movie is a prequel, similar to before drafts, and that the writing was almost complete.[108] During an interview at the premiere of Flying, Zemeckis stated that the sequel was nevertheless possible, despite Hoskins' absence, and the script for the sequel was sent to Disney for approval from studio executives.[109]

In February 2013, Gary K. Wolf, author of the original novel, said Erik Von Wodtke and he was working on a development proposal for an animated Disney buddy comedy starring Mickey Mouse and Roger Rabbit chosen The Stooge, based on the 1952 pic of the same name. The proposed motion picture is ready in a prequel, taking identify five years before Who Framed Roger Rabbit and part of the story is about how Roger met Jessica. Wolf has stated the film is currently wending its style through Disney.[110]

In November 2016, while promoting his film Allied in England, Zemeckis stated that the sequel "moves the story of Roger and Jessica Rabbit into the adjacent few years of period film, moving on from picture show noir to the world of the 1950s". He also stated that the sequel would feature a "digital Bob Hoskins", as Eddie Valiant would return in "ghost form". While the managing director went on to country that the script is "terrific" and the motion picture would nonetheless use hand-drawn animation, Zemeckis thinks that the chances of Disney green-lighting the sequel are "slim". As he explained more than in detail, "The electric current corporate Disney culture has no involvement in Roger, and they certainly don't like Jessica at all".[111] In December 2018, while promoting Welcome to Marwen, his latest film, and given the 30th anniversary of Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Zemeckis reiterated in an interview with Yahoo! Movies that though the sequel'due south script is "wonderful", Disney is still unlikely to ever produce it, and he does not see the possibility of producing it as an original film for the streaming service Disney+, as he feels that it does non brand any sense as there is no "Princess" in it.[112]

Notes [edit]

  1. ^ The budget has been commonly reported equally $70 meg, including by The New York Times in 1991, which later on issued an erratum to state that both Amblin and Touchstone insist the budget was "about $50 million".[three] Publications of the film'southward accounts since and then point that the exact production cost of the film was $58,166,000,[4] including the production overhead which came to a full of $7,587,000, putting the net toll at $50,587,000.[5]

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Further reading [edit]

  • Mike Bonifer (June 1989). The Art of Who Framed Roger Rabbit. First Glance Books. ISBN0-9622588-0-6.
  • Martin Noble (Dec 1988). Who Framed Roger Rabbit. Novelization of the film. Virgin Books. ISBN0-352-32389-two.
  • Gary K. Wolf (July 1991). Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit?. Spin-off from the movie and Wolf's Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. Villard. ISBN978-0-679-40094-3.
  • Bob Foster (1989). Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom. Comic volume sequel betwixt Who Framed Roger Rabbit and the theatrical short Breadbasket Trouble. Marvel Comics. ISBN0-87135-593-0.

External links [edit]

  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit essay [i] past Alexis Ainsworth at National Flick Registry
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit at IMDb
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit at the TCM Motion picture Database
  • Who Framed Roger Rabbit at The Big Drawing DataBase
  • Ken P (April 1, 2003). "An Interview with Don Hahn". IGN. Archived from the original on September 24, 2007.
  • Ken P (March 31, 2003). "An Interview with Andreas Deja". IGN. Archived from the original on April 13, 2003.
  • Wade Sampson (Dec 17, 2008). "The Roger Rabbit That Never Was". Mouse Planet.
  • Andrew, Farago; Bill Desowitz (November xxx, 2008). "Roger Rabbit Turns 20". Animation World Network. Archived from the original on Dec 17, 2008.

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