The read
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do. Most of the 321 1990s animation movies in this catalog score higher.
Synopsis
While incarcerated for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found escape by creating Cool World, a series featuring a voluptuous femme fatale named Holli Would. But the artist becomes a prisoner of his own fantasies when Holli transports Jack into Cool World with a scheme to seduce him and bring herself to life. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris – the only other human in Cool World – cautions Jack with the law: Noids (humans) don't have sex with doodles (cartoons). However, flesh proves weaker than ink as Holli takes human form in Las Vegas, staring in a trans-universal chase that threatens the destruction of both worlds.
Ratings
Audiences rate it 22 points higher than critics do.
829 audience votes
Key crew
- Ralph BakshiDirector
- Michael GraisScreenplay
- Mark VictorScreenplay
- Michael GraisWriter
- Mark VictorWriter
- Mark IshamOriginal Music Composer
Cast
- Kim BasingerHolli Would
- Gabriel ByrneJack Deebs
- Brad PittDetective Frank Harris
- Michele AbramsJennifer Malley
- Deirdre O'ConnellIsabelle Malley
- Janni BrennAgatha Rose Harris
- William FrankfatherCop
- Greg CollinsCop
- Maurice LaMarcheInterrogator #2 / Mash / drunken bar patron / Dr. Vincent "Vegas Vinnie" Whiskers / Jack Deebs (super hero version) (voice)
- Michael David LallySparks (voice)
- Carrie HamiltonComic Bookstore Cashier
- Stephen WorthBash (performance model) / Comic Store Patron
