Cool World

Cool World

Holli Would if she could ...and she will

PG-13 1992 · 102 min · ★ 5.7 · Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

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.

Directed by Ralph Bakshi · Written by Michael Grais

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Kim Basinger Holli Would
Gabriel Byrne Jack Deebs
Brad Pitt Detective Frank Harris
Michele Abrams Jennifer Malley
Deirdre O'Connell Isabelle Malley
Janni Brenn Agatha Rose Harris
William Frankfather Cop
Greg Collins Cop
Maurice LaMarche Interrogator #2 / Mash / drunken bar patron / Dr. Vincent "Vegas Vinnie" Whiskers / Jack Deebs (super hero version) (voice)
Michael David Lally Sparks (voice)
Carrie Hamilton Comic Bookstore Cashier
Stephen Worth Bash (performance model) / Comic Store Patron

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