Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988) on Netflix
PG19881h 44mAnimationComedyCrime
In 1947 Los Angeles, toons and humans coexist. Detective Eddie Valiant hates toons, but he is hired to photograph Roger Rabbit's wife. When Marvin Acme is murdered, Roger is the prime suspect.
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Plot summary
Toons and humans share Los Angeles in 1947, and Roger Rabbit is a star of Maroon Cartoon Studios. Worried by Roger's recent cartoons, studio head R.K. Maroon hires private detective Eddie Valiant to look into rumors that Roger's wife Jessica has taken up with Marvin Acme, who owns Acme Corporation and Toontown. Eddie watches Jessica sing at the Ink and Paint Club and takes secret photographs of her with Acme playing patty-cake. Eddie shows Roger the photographs, and Roger refuses to believe them. By the following morning Acme is found dead, and the evidence points at Roger. Judge Doom, the judge of Toontown, arrives with his Toon Patrol of weasels and the dip, a chemical that can destroy toons. Roger hides in Eddie's office, insisting he was framed, and Eddie agrees to help.
Cast
- Paul Springeras Augie
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988)
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- Bob Hoskins studied his daughter playing with her imaginary friends to get the feel of acting with cartoon characters, took mime training courses and performed his own stunts. He experienced hallucinations of weasels and rabbits creeping out of the wall at him for months after production wrapped.
- As the shooting schedule ran long and the budget reached $40 million, Disney CEO Michael Eisner seriously considered shutting down production, but studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg talked him out of it. Costs escalated to over $50 million and Disney went ahead anyway, keen to work with Spielberg.
- Terry Gilliam was offered the chance to direct but found the project too technically challenging. "Pure laziness on my part," he later admitted, "I completely regret that decision."
- Tim Curry auditioned for the role of Judge Doom, but was rejected because the producers found him too terrifying. Christopher Lloyd was cast instead, because he had previously worked with Zemeckis and Spielberg on Back to the Future.
- Joel Silver was cast as Raoul J. Raoul, the frustrated director of the cartoon Somethin's Cookin', as part of a prank aimed at Disney CEO Michael Eisner, who had a strained relationship with Silver. Silver shaved his beard and paid his own expenses to stay off initial cast lists; Eisner praised the performance once he learned of it.
