Tonight at a glance
- Runtime
- 104 min
- Age rating
- PG
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States
- Violence
- Moderate
Why tonight?
- Under two hours — there is still an evening on the other side of it.
- Reviewed better than most films in the catalogue.
The story
Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
- lovesickness
- based on novel or book
- falsely accused
- movie business
- innocence
- suspicion of murder
- cartoon
- villain
- mental breakdown
- melancholy
The look
A few frames, chosen rather than collected.
The bill
Bob Hoskins
Eddie Valiant
Christopher Lloyd
Judge Doom
Joanna Cassidy
Dolores
Charles Fleischer
Roger Rabbit / Benny The Cab / Greasy / Psycho (voice)
- Kathleen Turner — Jessica Rabbit (voice) (uncredited)
- Stubby Kaye — Marvin Acme
- Alan Tilvern — R.K. Maroon
- Richard LeParmentier — Lt. Santino
- Lou Hirsch — Baby Herman (voice)
- Betsy Brantley — Jessica's Performance Model
- Joel Silver — Raoul
- Paul Springer — Augie
- Richard Ridings — Angelo
- Edwin Craig — Arthritic Cowboy
- Lindsay Holiday — Soldier
- Directed
- Robert Zemeckis
- Written
- Peter S. Seaman, Jeffrey Price
Production
- Rating
- 7.5 / 10 · 6,322 ratings
- Studio
- Amblin Entertainment, Silver Screen Partners III, Touchstone Pictures
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.
