Who Framed Roger Rabbit on DVD (January 1, 2003)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American fantasy-comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis and released by Amblin Entertainment, and Touchstone Pictures in June 22, 1988. The film combines live action and animation, and is based on Gary K. Wolf's novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters interact directly with human beings. Who Framed Roger Rabbit stars Bob Hoskins as a private detective who investigates a murder involving the famous cartoon character, Roger Rabbit. Charles Fleischer co-stars as the titular character's voice, Christopher Lloyd as the villain, Kathleen Turner as the voice of Roger's cartoon wife, and Joanna Cassidy as the detective's girlfriend.
Appearances
Featured Characters:
- Eddie Valiant
- Dolores
- R.K. Maroon
- Marvin Acme
- Lt. Santino
Cartoon Featured Characters:
- Roger Rabbit
- Jessica Rabbit
- Benny The Cab
- Baby Herman
- Bongo the Gorilla
Villains:
California (1000) Figures:
- Raoul J. Raoul (the director)
- Augie
- Angelo (impudent bar patron)
- Arthritic Cowboy/Man In Bar
- Soldier In Bar
- Stretch
- Editor
- The Kids In Bus
- Blonde Starlet
- Andy Devine
- The Forensics
- Mailman
- Newscaster
- Conductor
- Teddy Valiant (still photographs)
Toontown Cameos:
Walt Disney
- Mickey Mouse
- Minnie Mouse
- Donald Duck
- Daisy Duck
- Goofy
- Pluto
- Pete
- Horace Horsecollar
- Clarabelle Cow
- Professor Owl
- Ludwig Von Drake
- Huey, Dewey and Louie
- Clara Cluck
- Jose Carioca
- Peter Pig
- Bucky Bug from Bugs in Love
- Witch Hazel from Trick or Treat
- Merry Dwarfs from The Merry Dwarfs
- Trees and Flowers from Flowers and Trees
- Sun from Father Noah's Ark
- Big Bad Wolf, The Three Little Pigs and Little Red Riding Hood
- Orphans from Orphan's Benefit
- Toby Tortoise, Girl Bunnies and Animal Pedestrians from The Tortoise and the Hare
- Jenny Wren from Who Killed Cock Robin
- Cock O' the Walk from Cock O' the Walk
- Elmer Elephant and Joe Giraffe from Elmer Elephant
- Snow White, The Seven Dwarfs, Queen Grimhilde (appearing as apple hag) and Snow White's Forest Animal Friends from Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
- Ferdinand the Bull from Ferdinand The Bull
- Pinocchio, Jiminy Cricket and Lampwick from Pinocchio
- Brooms, Hyacinth Hippo, Ben Ali Gator, Madame Upanova, Pegasuses, Unicorn, Cupids, Chinese Mushrooms and Russian Thistles from Fantasia
- Reluctant Dragon and Sir Giles from The Reluctant Dragon
- Dumbo, Crows, Mrs. Jumbo, Casey Junior and One of the Clowns from Dumbo
- Bambi, Faline, Flower and Great Prince from Bambi
- Pedro the Plane from Saludos Amigos
- Ben Buzzard from The Flying Jalopy
- Emotion from Reason and Emotion
- Chicken Little from Chicken Little
- Monte the Pelican from The Pelican and the Snipe
- Peter and Johnny Fedora from Make Mine Music
- Br'er Rabbit, Br'er Bear, Hummingbirds, Tar Baby and Sis Moles from Song of the South
- Willie the Giant, Bongo and Golden Harp from Fun and Fancy Free
- Danny from So Dear to My Heart
- Apartments and Skyscrapers from The Little House
- Mr. Toad and Cyril Proudbottom from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr Toad
- Mr. Walker from Motormania
- Bill the Lizard, Cheshire Cat, Doorknob and Bulb-horn Duck from Alice in Wonderland
- Lambert's Mother from Lambert the Sheepish Lion
- Tinker Bell, Peter Pan, Rhinoceros and John Darling from Peter Pan
- Maleficent's Goons and Sleeping Beauty's Birds from Sleeping Beauty
- silhouette of Mary Poppins, Butterflies and Penguin Waiters from Mary Poppins
- Kaa and Flaps the Vulture from The Jungle Book
- Piglet and Gopher from The Many Adventures of Winnie The Pooh
Warner Bros.
- Bugs Bunny
- Daffy Duck
- Elmer Fudd
- Porky Pig
- Yosemite Sam
- Tweety
- Sylvester
- Foghorn Leghorn
- Road Runner
- Wile E. Coyote
- Speedy Gonzales
- Marvin the Martian
- a toon frog that resembles of Michigan J. Frog from One Froggy Evening
- grey colored version of Marc Antony
- Sam Sheepdog
- Granny
- a toon fox that resembles of George the Fox from Of Fox and Hounds
- Henery Hawk
- Beaky Buzzard
- Happy Rabbit
- Yoyo Dodo from Porky in Wackyland and Dough for the Dodo
- Gracie the Fightin' Kangaroo from Pop 'Im Pop!
- Toro the Bull from Bully for Bugs
Hanna-Barbera Productions
- Wally Gator
- Huckleberry Hound
- Snagglepuss
- Magilla Gorilla
- Yakky Doodle
MGM
- Droopy
- Spike
- purple colored version of George
- Screwy Squirrel
- Meathead the Dog
- Barney Bear
- Benny Burro
- Wolfie
- Octopus from Half-Pint Pygmy
Borden Dairy Company
- Elsie the Cow
Paramount Pictures/Fleischer/Famous Studios
- black & white colored version of Betty Boop
- a toon clown that resembles of Koko the Clown
- Wiffle Piffle from Whoops! I'm a Cowboy and The Hot Air Salesman
- Joker the Harlequin Jack-in-the-Box
- Little Lulu
- Herman the Mouse
Universal Studios/Walter Lantz Productions
- Woody Woodpecker
- Wally Walrus
- gold colored version of Papa Panda
- Chilly Willy
20th Century Fox/Terrytoons
- Mighty Mouse
- Gandy Goose
- Lion from The Temperamental Lion
King Features Syndicate
- Felix the Cat
- Little King
Al Capp
- Lena Hyena from Li'l Abner
Locations
- Live actions filmings
- Los Angeles, Calfornia (1000)
- Animations filmings
Plot
In a stereotypical 1948 cartoon, ``Something`s Cookin``, Roger Rabbit messes up (he sees birds instead of seeing stars). Detective Eddie Valiant watches him ``blow his lines``, and R.K. Maroon, Roger`s boss, tells Eddie that he thinks Roger`s wife, Jessica Rabbit, has been making Roger suspicious that he is cheating on him. He sends Eddie to figure out if Jessica ha been cheating, to which Ediie replies he will not work with Toons. (A Toon killed Eddie`s brother.) RK convinces Eddie, and he finds out that Jessica has been playing patty-cake---literally---with Marvin Acme, the owner of Toontown.
Eddie takes a few pictures of the patty-cake game and shows them to Roger. Roger gets drunk and storms off, declaring that him adn Jessica will be happy no matter what. Roger sits outside of the Acme Factory crying wile looking at pictures of him and Jessica. The next day, Eddie finds out that Marvin has been killed by a safe dropped on his head. Roger is the prime suspect, according to Judge Doom, the Judge of ToonTown. Doom says that when he catches Roger, he will kill him using the Dip, the only thing capable of killing a cartoon character. Doom has enlisted the help of the Toon Patrol, a gang of weasels named Smartass, Stupid, Sleazy, Psycho, Greasy, and Wheezy, to capture Roger.
Eddie goes home and recieves a tip from Roger`s co-star,Baby Herman, that Roger did not kill Marvin. He said that whoever did kill him, however, must have been after Marvin`s will, which supposedly left ToonTown to the Toons. Without it, anyone could destroy ToonTown. Eddie discovers Roger in his room, pleading innocent. Eddie decides to take his case, only because whoever set Roger up was also making Eddie look bad. He hides Roger in a bar, only to have Doom find him the next day. Now, Doom and the Patrol are after both Eddie and Roger.
After saving Benny The Cab from being ``dipped`` for driving on the sidewalk, Benny drives Eddie and Roger to safety. They go to a movie theater, where a news bulletin says that RK has signed a deal with Cloverleaf Industries, who want to buy ToonTown.
Eddie and Roger go to interrogate RK, and Eddie tells Roger to stay outside and guard. Roger gets captured by Jessica, who throws him in the trunk of her car. While questioning RK, RK tells Eddie that Cloverleaf wanted ToonTown, but it would ``become land for the free-`` then RK is shot before he can finish the word. When Eddie goes to see who shot RK to death, he sees Jessica running to her car and leaving. He follows her into ToonTown. While chasing her, Eddie thinks he has found her. He is fooled, as he has just foundLena Hyena, who wants to marry him all of a sudden. Scared, Eddie runs away into the men`s bathroom, except...there is no men`s bathroom! Eddie starts falling to what he thinks is his doom. While falling, Eddie runs into Mickey Mouse and Bugs Bunny, who are skydiving. They both taunt him by saying they have a spare, but Bugs says that Eddie probably doesn`t want it. Thinking Bugs means a spare parachute, Eddie pleads Bugs to give it to him until Mickey says, ``Better let him have it, Bugs!`` Turns out the ``spare`` was a tire, which weighs Eddie down.
Eddie thinks he is about to die, until Lena catches him. After escaping her, Eddie encounters Jessica and finds out that she is innocent, and that Judge Doom killed Marvin Acme and RK Maroon. Benny comes and drives Jessica and Eddie to chase Doom, until, Doom makes Benny slip. Jessica and Eddie fall out to the ground, and Benny pretends to be dead. Doom and the Patrol take Jessica and Eddie to the Acme Factory.
Roger comes by Benny, and Benny finds the strength to get up and drive Roger to where Doom is holding Eddie and Jessica. Roger grabs a gun and tells Benny to call the cops. Doom revelas that he is the boss of Cloverleaf, and that he will dip Toontown off the face of earth and put a freeway in it`s place. Roger then comes and starts threatening Doom with a gun, until Sleazy drops a pile of bricks on him. He sees stars, and becomes happy because he couldn`t see stars at the beggining of the movie. Doom has Roger and Jessica tied up, and leaves the weasels alone to dip Roger and Jessica with a dip cannon. Eddie gets an idea and makes the weasels laugh themselves to death, except for Smarty, who falls in a pool of dip.
Eddie gets ready to shut the dip cannon off, until Doom stops him. Eddie then runs over Doom with a steamroller, but Doom survives, because he was a Toon. But not just any Toon---he killed Eddie`s brother! After a long fight, Eddie reversed the dip cannon and fires all the dip left in the world at Doom, killing him. He lets Roger and Jessica down just as the cops show up, as well as a bunch of famous cartoon characters. Roger is proven innocent, and Muppet`s will shows up. Toontown now belongs to the Toons! Anyone sings ``Smile, Darn Ya, Smile`` as Porky Pig closes the movie with his famous ``Th-th-tha-th-th-th-that-th-that`s all, folks!`` and Tinkerbell flies by.
(Plot added to this wiki by user Cartoonist Guy.)
Cast
Live Actions Actors
|
Bob Hoskins as Edward "Eddie" Valiant |
Cast Cellpadding
| Edward "Eddie" Valiant | Bob Hoskins |
| Roger Rabbit | Charles Fleischer |
| Judge Doom | Christopher Lloyd |
| Dolores | Joanna Cassidy |
| Benny The Cab | Gloria Blondell |
Cast Wikitable
| Edward "Eddie" Valiant | Bob Hoskins |
| Roger Rabbit | Charles Fleischer |
| Judge Doom | Christopher Lloyd |
| Dolores | Joanna Cassidy |
| Benny the Cab | Gloria Blondell |
| Jessica Rabbit (Speaking Voice) | Kathleen Turner |
| Jessica Rabbit (Singing Voice) | Amy Irving |
| Jessica Rabbit (Performance Model) | Betsy Brantley |
| Baby Herman (Baby Voice) | Nicholas Martorell Jr. |
| Baby Herman (Adult Voice) | Lou Hirsch |
| Marvin Acme | Stubby Kaye |
| R. K. Maroon | Alan Tilvern |
| Lt. Santino | Richard LeParmentier |
| Raoul J. Raoul | Joel Silver |
| Augie | Paul Springer |
| Angelo | Richard Ridings |
| Arthritic Cowboy/Man in Bar | Edwin Craig |
| Soldier In Bar | Lindsay Holiday |
| Stretch | Mike Edmonds |
| Editor | Morgan Deare |
| Kid #1 | Danny Capri |
| Kid #2 | Christopher Hollosy |
| Kid #3 | John-Paul Sipla |
| Blonde Starlet | Laura Frances |
| Andy Devine | Andrew Robinson |
| Forensic #1 | Joel Cutrara |
| Forensic #2 | Billy J. Mitchell |
| Mailman | Eric B. Sindon |
| Newscaster | Ed Herlihy |
| Conductor | James O'Connell |
| Teddy Valiant | Eugene Guirterrez |
| Mrs. Herman | April Winchell |
| Marvin the Martian | Mae Questel |
| Gorilla | Tom Hiddleston |
| Mickey Mouse | Wayne Allwine |
| Bugs Bunny | Frank Gorshin |
| Goofy | Tony Pope |
| Porky Pig | Mel Blanc |
| Donald Duck | Tony Anselmo |
| Daffy Duck | Rob Paulsen |
| Tweety Bird | Anna Paquin |
| Sylvester the Cat | Jeff Bergman |
| Hyacinth Hippo | Mary T. Radford |
| Yosemite Sam | Hank Azaria |
| Foghorn Leghorn | Jeff Bennett |
| Bullet #1 | Jim Gallant |
| Bullet #2 | Jim Cummings |
| Bullet #3 | Pat Buttram |
| Additional Weasels | Sam Raimi |
| Minnie Mouse | Russi Taylor |
| Toontown Bluebirds #1 | Wyatt Smith |
| Toontown Bluebirds #2 | Steven Yeun |
| Toontown Bluebirds #3 | Jordan Kaiser |
| Toontown Bluebirds #4 | Alyson Stoner |
| Pinocchio | Peter Westy |
| Toad | Les Perkins |
| Dumbo | Frank Welker |
| Woody Woodpecker | Cherry Davis |
| Big Bad Wolf | Marton Csokas |
| Smart Ass | David Lander |
| Greasy | Cillian Murphy |
| Stupid | Fred Newsman |
| Wheezy | June Foray |
| Psycho | Jim Varney |
| Lena Hyena | Andrew Lincoln |
| Singing Sword | Frank Sinatra |
| Shoe | Joan Ganz Cooney |
| Mime | Jeff Arbaugh |
| Ink and Paint Club Patron #1 | Sadie Corre |
| Ink and Paint Club Patron #2 | Christine Hewett |
| Ink and Paint Club Patron #3 | Kit Hillier |
| Motocyrcle Cop | Lane Leavitt |
| Drunk In Bar | Derek Lyons |
| Earl (Bar Customer) | Philip O'Brien |
| Judge Doom When He Runs Away In Toontown | Ken Ralston |
Trivia
This is the final movie where Mel Blanc voiced the Looney Tunes before his death in 1989.
The film inspired 3 cartoon shorts "Tummy Trouble", and "Trail-Mix Up". It also inspired a comic book series called "Roger Rabbit Comics" and a short comic book series called "Roger Rabbit's Toontown".
The film also included a chapter book "Who P-P-P-Plugged Roger Rabbit" and a graphic novel "Roger Rabbit: The Resurrection of Doom".
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