Bob Hoskins: A Hard Boiler, Hard Drinking Detective

Bob Hoskins is a straight up alcoholic and it's not played for laughs. It's played relatively seriously. I mean, when he sees that bottle of liquor in the president of Maroon Cartoon's office, like he's licking his lips to get it. All these reasons, I don't like this as a kids movie, is why I love this as an adult. We're talking about desperation on Disney. The ability to let them be kind of manipulated into places they didn't want to go.

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