WHO FRAMED ROGER RABBIT? (1988)
Revisionist noir comedy in which a hard-boiled cartoon-hating detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is the only hope for a toon rabbit television star framed for murder. But Valient hasn’t set foot in Too Town since a cartoon dropped a piano on his brother, and even he’s not cynical enough to navigate the dark corruption of 1940’s Los Angeles.
This is one of the best noir movies ever made, and yet it’s a children’s movie with humans interacting with cartoons. It’s absolutely thrilling, horrifying, and moving. And it’s hilarious too. Hoskins is unbelievable, one of the greatest performances ever. And this actually manages to be a really sex noir movie with Jessica Rabbit as the unsettlingly hot animated femme fatale.
