Through A Scanner Darkly
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0405296/?ref_=nv_sr_1
In 2006, director Richard Linklater, who brought us such great rotoscope films such as Waking Life, also made A Scanner Darkly. Really 2006? I feel like it was older than that. Anyway, I haven't seen the whole thing but it is the first thing I thought of when considering rotoscope. It features a few semi-successful actors such as Keanu Reeves, Winona Ryder, and Robert Downey, Jr. Based on a novel by Philip K. Dick, A Scanner Darkly follows the life of an undercover cop who undergoes some strange experiments.
The rotoscoping for the most part is very interesting. At times is stays very close to being live action. At other times as in the clip I linked to above shows faces morphing as the character remembers them. At times you see Robert Downey, jr's face on a giant bug. There also moments when characters clothes change as they move through the environments which show how the character changes emotionally through the scene.
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