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Released
1992 · FILM

Cool World

Cartoonist Jack Deebs must outwit his sultry creation, Holli Would, who escapes into the real world and threatens to tear apart both dimensions unless he stops her before she becomes human forever.

Holli Would if she could ...and she will

Directed by
Runtime
102 min
AnimationComedyFantasy

Synopsis

While in prison for murder, cartoonist Jack Deebs found solace in creating *Cool World*, a comic series featuring the voluptuous femme fatale Holli Would. However, his own imagination becomes a trap when Holli uses her powers to transport Jack into the cartoon world, aiming to seduce him and take on a physical form. Hard-boiled detective Frank Harris, the only other human in *Cool World*, warns Jack of the law: humans (Noids) must not have sexual relations with cartoon characters (doodles). But flesh proves no match for ink as Holli successfully assumes human form in Las Vegas, sparking a cross-dimensional chase that puts both worlds at risk of destruction.

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How many hands made this film

The scale of the collaboration

Principal cast & crew: 21

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

Why a floor?

This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Annamaria Komlossy SzantoShot by John A AlonzoScored by Mark IshamDesigned by Michael Corenblith

Box Office

1992 · Box office

📉 Underperformed — grossed 0.5× its budget

Why 2.5×?

Cinemas keep roughly half of every ticket sold, and a wide release’s marketing often costs about as much again as the film — so a movie needs to gross around 2.5× its production budget just to break even theatrically. It’s a rule of thumb, not the studio’s ledger (home video and streaming come later).

Worldwide gross

$14.1M

Budget$30.0M
Worldwide gross$14.1M
break-even (2.5×)

Opening weekend: $5.6M 39% of its US run. Front-loaded — most of its money arrived opening weekend.

Opening week (7-day): $8.1M57% of its US & Canada run.

Peak 1,448 theaters

Also known as

  • Fuga dal mondo dei sogniit

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