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`Roger Rabbit': For funny, check out this bunny.(The Dallas Morning News)

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Byline: Nancy Churnin

If your kids liked "Space Jam," they should love "Who Framed Roger Rabbit, the 1988 Robert Zemeckis film that showed just how much fun it could be to mix up animation with live-action.

And adults can have just as much fun with a film that shows a surprising amount of depth between the pratfalls.

On the surface, Roger Rabbit falls in the seedy private-eye genre, as Eddie Valiant (Bob Hoskins) reluctantly takes on the job of taking incriminating pictures of Jessica Rabbit (a curvaceous cartoon voiced by Kathleen Turner and sung by Amy Irving).

But as the plot thickens, it's a story about prejudice _ with `toons ...

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