Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 102 min
- Age rating
- PG-13
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
The story
While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.
- cartoon
- seduction
- comic book
- alternate dimension
- las vegas
- adult animation
- cartoonist
- live action and animation
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Kim Basinger
Holli Would
Gabriel Byrne
Jack Deebs
Brad Pitt
Detective Frank Harris
Michele Abrams
Jennifer Malley
- Deirdre O'Connell — Isabelle Malley
- Janni Brenn — Agatha Rose Harris
- William Frankfather — Cop
- Greg Collins — Cop
- Maurice LaMarche — Interrogator #2 / Mash / drunken bar patron / Dr. Vincent "V
- Michael David Lally — Sparks (voice)
- Carrie Hamilton — Comic Bookstore Cashier
- Stephen Worth — Bash (performance model) / Comic Store Patron
- Murray Podwal — Store Patron
- Jenine Jennings — Holli Would / Lonette (performance model) / Craps Bunny (voi
- Joey Camen — Interrogator #1 / Slash / Holli's door (voice)
- Directed
- Ralph Bakshi
- Written
- Michael Grais, Mark Victor
Production
- Rating
- 5.7 / 10 · 828 ratings
- Studio
- Paramount Pictures, Bakshi Animation
If this stayed with you
Then these are the nearest things Cue holds — chosen for what they share with it, not for what happens to be popular.
