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Director:
Writers:
Gary K. Wolf (novel)
Jeffrey Price (screenplay) ...
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Release Date:
22 June 1988 (USA) more
Tagline:
It's the story of a man, a woman, and a rabbit in a triangle of trouble.
Plot:
A toon hating detective is a cartoon rabbit's only hope to prove his innocence when he is accused of murder. full summary | full synopsis
Awards:
Won 3 Oscars. Another 16 wins & 21 nominations more
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(118 articles)
User Comments:
It's a...deadly...serious...business! more (172 total)

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Additional Details

Also Known As:
Dead Toons Don't Pay Bills (USA) (working title)
Murder in Toontown (USA) (working title)
The Toontown Trial (USA) (working title)
Toons (USA) (working title)
Trouble in Toontown (USA) (working title)
Who Censored Roger Rabbit? (USA) (working title)
Who Shot Roger Rabbit? (USA) (working title)
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Runtime:
104 min
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1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
70 mm 6-Track (70 mm prints) | Dolby (35 mm prints)

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The first test audience was comprised mostly of 18-19-year-olds, who hated it. After nearly the entire audience walked out of the screening, Robert Zemeckis, who had final cut, said he wasn't changing a thing. more
Goofs:
Anachronisms: Many of the liquor and beer bottles were of an incorrect shape or had labels that were not used for another couple of decades. Examples being the Wild Turkey he shoots with the tomahawk bullet and the Budweiser behind the bar when Doom tries to apprehend Roger. more
Quotes:
[first lines]
Mrs. Herman: Mommy's going to the beauty parlor, darling, but I'm leaving you with your favorite friend, Roger. He's going to take very, very good care of you, because if he doesn't... HE'S GOING BACK TO THE SCIENCE LAB.
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Troldspejlet: (#30.9)" (2003) more
Soundtrack:
Hungarian Rhapsody no. 2 more

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Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
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29 out of 39 people found the following comment useful.
It's a...deadly...serious...business!, 17 January 2004
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Author: Prof_Lostiswitz from Cyberia

Watching this for the umpteenth time, I am struck by how much this movie resembles Brazil (1985). What, you will say, that was a grim and serious story set in a horrible dystopia. Ah, yes, but one of its main satirical weapons was its over-the-top humour.

Well, Roger Rabbit inverts the formula. We seem to have a zany cartoon comedy. but underlying this is a story about racism and genocide. The cartoon characters, who coexist with humans, are shown as a tolerated subordinated race, good for "singing and dancing and running and jumping". They are called "Toons", which resembles another epithet that used to be a nasty name for black people. And the "solution" is exactly that - a solution of benzene and acetone that will exterminate the Toons by dissolving them.

Both movies are set in something that resembles the 1940's, which gives lots of opportunity for spoofing films noir of the sort that Bogart et al. used to make.

How could something so serious be funny? The best comedy is just a hare's breadth (sorry, couldn't resist) removed from tragedy, which is why Hogan's Heroes is so funny while Disney comedies fall flat from gooey sentiment. Kids love Roger Rabbit, and that should be the ultimate test of whether it's comic or not.

It still amazes me how many grown-ups fail to perceive the underlying message of tolerance and understanding. Perhaps they don't want to...

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