Cool World
Cool World is a 1992 American adult live-action/animated hybrid 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 a cartoon-like universe he believes he created, where 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 "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 |
|---|---|
| director | Ralph Bakshi |
| editor | Annamaria Szanto Steve Mirkovich |
| genre | action animation 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 |
| musicBy | Mark Isham |
| producer | Frank Mancuso Jr. |
| productionCompany | Paramount Pictures Ralph Bakshi |
| publisher | Paramount Pictures |
| recordedAt | Las Vegas Valley |
| theme | animated cartoon parallel universes |