(Who Framed Roger Rabbit?'s trailer - credit: Touchstone Pictures)
The film stars Bob Hoskins as Detective Eddie Valiant, Christopher Lloyd as Judge Doom and Charles Fleisher as Roger Rabbit.
The story is set in 1947, in a world where humans and cartoon characters, referred to as "toons", co-exist. P.I. Eddie Valiant is hired by famous cartoon director R. K. Maroon to investigate the wife of one of his biggest stars, Roger Rabbit, after a series of poor performances. Valiant, despite being a notorious toon-hater, takes the job and manages to sneak a few shots of Rabbit's wife, Jessica Rabbit, spending time with another man. Roger runs off after being shown the photos in a fit of rage and jealousy.
The next day, we find out the man Jessica Rabbit was seeing, Marvin Acme, had been killed by a toon; they dropped a safe on his head. Roger is the main suspect in the case. Valiant meets with Judge Doom at the crime scene, who announces that he's created a toon-killing chemical called Dip. Doom is the highest bidder on Toontown, and threatens that toons who don't respect the law will face the Dip.
Upon returning home, Valiant discovers Roger broke into his apartment, pleading his innocence. Valiant reluctantly agrees to help prove it, by finding Marvin Acme's will, a missing piece of evidence in the murder case. The will outlines that Toontown would belong to the toons for eternity, and would block Judge Doom's plans. Roger is hidden in a bar run by Valiant's friend, as Jessica Rabbit meets Valiant later to also plead Roger's innocence. Roger is eventually found at the bar by Judge Doom and his gang of weasels, only for Valiant to save him at just the last second. The two jump into a cartoon taxi and make their getaway.
They lay low at a theatre for a bit, where Valiant reveals his past to Roger; he was a part of a detective duo with his brother Teddy, until a toon dropped a piano on his head and killed him. Valiant then starts putting together that Doom's company bidding on Toontown also bought out Maroon Cartoons. Confronting R. K. Maroon, he confesses that he only sold the studio out of fear for the toons' safety... and then he gets shot.
Valiant sees Jessica fleeing the scene, and follows her straight into Toontown. After some hi-jinks in Toontown, the two bump into each other where Jessica explains Doom killed Maroon, and that she had Marvin Acme's will all along... only to find it blank. The weasels then find Valiant and Jessica, and take them to the Acme factory.
At the factory, Doom reveals his intentions; after buying the public transportation in California, as well as Toontown, he plans to steamroll & "Dip" the town to create a freeway. Roger suddenly bursts in, launching an unsuccessful rescue attempt which only ends in him and Jessica being tied up and aimed at with Dip. Valiant defeats the surrounding weasels operating all the machinery that would put the plan into action, performing a variety of vaudeville stunts and cartoon gags; they die of laughter.
One of the now loose machines flattens Doom, only for him to reveal he was a toon all along. And not just any toon... but the one that killed Valiant's brother. The two fight each other using various toon weapons, but Valiant ultimately gets the final blow when he strikes Doom with a high pressure hose of Dip. Doom dissolves away. The steamroller crashes through the wall leading to Toontown, only to be destroyed by a train.
Roger starts reading out a love poem he wrote on a seemingly blank piece of paper on the night he found out about Jessica seeing Acme. Turns out the paper was Acme's will, written in his trademark disappearing ink. Roger and Valiant now see eye to eye, as everyone happily walks into Toontown.
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