Roger declares that they will be happy again as he leaves. After watching Jessica perform at an underground nightclub, Eddie secretly photographs her and Acme playing patty-cake in her dressing room, which he shows to Roger, who becomes distraught about his wife cheating on him. Maroon hires Eddie to investigate rumors about Roger's gorgeous toon wife Jessica being romantically involved with Marvin Acme, owner of both Acme Corporation and Toontown. Maroon, head of Maroon Cartoon Studios, is concerned about the recent poor performances of one of his stars, Roger Rabbit.
Private detective Eddie Valiant and his brother, Teddy, once worked with the toons on many cases, but after Teddy was murdered by a toon, Eddie lapsed into alcoholism, lost his sense of humor, and vowed never to work for toons again. In 1947 Los Angeles, " toons" act in theatrical cartoon shorts as with live-action films they regularly interact with real people and reside in an area known as Toontown. In 2016, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant". It won three Academy Awards for Best Film Editing, Best Sound Effects Editing and Best Visual Effects and received a Special Achievement Academy Award for its animation direction by Williams. It brought a renewed interest in the Golden age of American animation, spearheading modern American animation and the Disney Renaissance. It grossed $329.8 million worldwide, becoming one of the highest-grossing films in the year. It received acclaim from critics, who praised its visuals, humor, writing and performances, with critics and audiences considering it to be "groundbreaking". The film was released through Disney's Touchstone Pictures banner on June 22, 1988.
While filming, the production budget began to rapidly expand and the shooting schedule ran longer than expected. Production was moved from Los Angeles to Elstree Studios in England to accommodate Williams and his group of animators. Zemeckis was brought on to direct the film while Canadian animator Richard Williams was hired to supervise the animation sequences. Price and Seaman wrote two drafts of the script before Disney brought in executive producer Steven Spielberg and his production company, Amblin Entertainment. Walt Disney Pictures purchased the film rights for the film's story in 1981. Set in a 1947 version of Hollywood where cartoon characters (commonly referred to as "toons") and people co-exist, the film follows Eddie Valiant, a private investigator who must exonerate Roger Rabbit, a toon who has been accused of murdering a wealthy businessman. The film stars Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Charles Fleischer, Stubby Kaye, and Joanna Cassidy. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?. Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated comedy mystery film directed by Robert Zemeckis, produced by Frank Marshall and Robert Watts, and loosely adapted by Jeffrey Price and Peter S.
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