Who Framed Roger Rabbit is a 1988 American live-action/animated fantasy-comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis. The screenplay by Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman is based on Gary K. Wolf's 1981 novel Who Censored Roger Rabbit?, which depicts a world in which cartoon characters interact directly with human beings and animals. Who Framed Roger Rabbit stars Bob Hoskins as private detective Eddie Valiant, who investigates an event involving Roger Rabbit, a second-banana cartoon character. ... more on Wikipedia