Cool World is a 1992 American live-action/animated film directed by Ralph Bakshi, and starring Kim Basinger, Gabriel Byrne, and Brad Pitt. It tells the story of a cartoonist who finds himself in the animated world he created, and is seduced by one of his characters, a comic strip vamp who wants to be real. Cool World marked Bakshi's return to feature films after nine years. The film was originally pitched as an animated horror film about an underground cartoonist, who fathers an illegitimate half-human/half-cartoon daughter, who hates herself for what she is and tries to kill him. During... production, Bakshi's original screenplay was scrapped by producer Frank Mancuso, Jr. and heavily rewritten by Michael Grais, Mark Victor, and Larry Gross. Reviews praised the film's visuals, but criticized the story and characters, as well as the combination of live-action and animation, which some critics felt was unconvincing. In 1945 Las Vegas, World War II veteran Frank Harris returns to his mother. Shortly after his arrival, he shows his mother a motorcycle that he won in Italy during his service. Out in the desert, they both ride on the motorcycle, but collide with a drunk couple.
more
| Release date: | July 10, 1992 |
| Directed by: | Ralph Bakshi |
| Rated: |  |
| Runtime: | 102 Minutes |
| Producer: | Frank Mancuso Jr. |
| Editor: | Steve Mirkovich, Annamaria Szanto |
| Music by: | Mark Isham |
| Cinematography: | John A. Alonzo |
| Screenplay by: | Michael Grais, Mark Victor, Larry Gross |
| Estimated budget: | $30,000,000 |
| Genre: | Comedy, Animation, Fantasy, Action |