A hard-boiled noir wired with anarchic slapstick, Who Framed Roger Rabbit reimagines 1940s Hollywood as a city where humans and cartoons uneasily coexist—most notably in the segregated Toontown. When down-on-his-luck detective Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) is hired to clear the name of the manic, wrongfully accused Roger Rabbit (voiced by Charles Fleischer), he falls into an underworld of gags, studio backstabbing, and a real-estate conspiracy that threatens to, quite literally, erase Toontown. Zemeckis’s film, realized in brilliant tandem with animation director Richard Williams, remains a jaw-dropping technical marvel years before CGI made such feats commonplace. It’s also a sharp satire of gentrification, exotification, otherness, tokenizing, and Hollywood hierarchy, where Toons are both stars and second-class citizens. The tone shifts to genuine horror with Christopher Lloyd’s nightmarish performance as the fascist toon-executioner Judge Doom, whose urban renewal plans would make Robert Moses break a sweat.