Cool World
Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated black comedy fantasy film directed by Ralph Bakshi and written by Michael Grais and Mark Victor. 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, but has existed long before. In this world, he is seduced by one of the characters, a femme fatale who wants to become human.
Plot
In 1945 Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother and invites her to a ride on his motorcycle. The two are involved in a traffic collision where Frank's mother dies. Afterwards, Frank is inadvertently transported to a cartoon-like alternate universe called the "Cool World", where he restarts his life as a detective for Cool World's local police department.
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author | Mark Victor Michael Grais |
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director | Ralph Bakshi |
editor | Annamaria Szanto Steve Mirkovich |
genre | action animation comedy fantasy live-action |
keywords | alternate universe build femme fatale fountain pen id kill las vegas new life plan plaza hotel & casino police department prison sentence real world sexual intercourse union plaza hotel warn world war ii write writing implement writing utensils |
musicBy | Mark Isham |
producer | Frank Mancuso Jr. |
productionCompany | Paramount Pictures Ralph Bakshi |
publisher | Paramount Pictures |
recordedAt | Las Vegas Valley |
theme | animated black comedy cartoon parallel universes |