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Cool World movie storyline. Jack Deebs is a cartoonist who is due to be released from jail. His comic book “Cool World” describes a zany world populated by “doodles” (cartoon characters) and “noids” (humanoids). What Jack did’t realize is that Cool World really does exist, and a “doodle” scientist has just perfected a machine which links Cool World with our world. Intrigued at seeing his creations come to life, Jack is nonetheless wary as he knows that not everything in Cool World is exactly friendly.
Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he thinks he created, and is seduced by one of the characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to be real. Cool World marked Bakshi’s return to feature films after nine years. The film was originally pitched as an animated horror film about an underground cartoonist who fathers an illegitimate half-real/half-cartoon daughter, who hates herself for what she is and tries to kill him.
During production, Bakshi’s original screenplay was scrapped by producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. and heavily rewritten by Michael Grais and Mark Victor in secret. Reviews praised the film’s visuals, but criticized the story and characters, as well as the combination of live-action and animation, which some critics felt was unconvincing. The film would eventually gross only half its production budget.
Çool World (1992)
Directed by: Ralph Bakshi
Starring: Gabriel Byrne, Kim Basinger, Brad Pitt, Michele Abrams, Deirdre O’Connell, Janni Brenn, William Frankfather, Maurice LaMarche, Carrie Hamilton
Screenplay by: Michael Grais, Mark Victor
Production Design by:
Cinematography by: John A. Alonzo
Film Editing by: Steve Mirkovich, Annamaria Szanto
Costume Design by: Malissa Daniel
Art Direction by: David J. Bomba
Music by: Mark Isham
MPAA Rating: PG-13 for language and sensuality.
Distributed by: Paramount Pictures
Release Date: July 10, 1992
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