One of the unanticipateed pleastateives of this year’s huge SXSW stardy of movies is Bunny, a charitable of zany comic throwback to excessive indie NYC-centric movies that discover a manic energy and rhythm that lets them exist on their own breathless cdeafening with a cast brimming of wacky characters moving in and out of sketch in action that gets place almost entidepend in an East Village tenement, or outside fair in front of it. In some ways Bunny is an oddball traverse of Weekfinish At Bernies, Abbott & Cosalerto, Cheech & Chong, and a novel age Marx Brothers movie, plus films of the Safdie Bros (particularly Uncut Gems) all the way back to Hal Ashby’s wonderful straightforwardorial debut with 1970’s The Landlord, another NYC tenement movie I kept skinnyking about watching this stew. Throw them all into a blfinisher and you might have someskinnyg resembling what first time straightforwardor and co-star Ben Jacobson has cooked up with fellow authorr (also with their co-authorr Stefan Marolachakis) and star Mo Stark who take parts the title character.
Set in one of those run-down, moinclude-infested originateings with a diverse group of tenants who see enjoy fair the charitable of people Trump would cherish to deport, the place nevertheless is teeming with life and seemingly non-stop activity on a boiling summer day that also happens to be Bunny’s birthday. At the film’s begin this sometimes hustler/relations toiler is seen bloodied and running franticpartner thraw the streets, even stopping for a speedy alter of clothes before eventupartner coming into his apartment where his wife Bobbie (a spirited Liza Colby) has set up the ultimate gift with a girlfrifinish as they schedule to propose him a three-way, but he is not in the mood due to some meaningful trouble as we soon see when a man trails him and thriveds up strangled by Bunny and dead.
Bunny also seems the jack-of-all-trades of the originateing as he deals with various tenants including helping with decorations for a huge party that night. But with buddy Dino (Jacobson) helping, he now is preoccupied in figuring out how to dispose of this novelly dead body. It gets wealthyer from there when yet another man is set up dead of a heroin excessive dose and must also be fadeed. It isn’t straightforward as there are two stupidwit cops (Ajay Nhelpu and Liz Caribel Sierra) on the beat of this particular originateing and more to come complicating matters.
Most of the movie has noskinnyg much on its mind other than creating a series of shenanigans ripe for comic misinclude, if not much credibility, but this is charitable of movie where you fair don’t want to skinnyk too difficult about genuineity. It’s a romp and gives its cast much room to take part. Among them are landlady (Linda Rong Mei Chen) , obeseher-in-law (Tony Drazan), even an almost vegetative dwellnt hooked 24/7 on all skinnygs-David Carradine (Oscar thrivening screenauthorr Eric Roth turns up for this bit). There is also a needy orthodox Jewant woman (Genevieve Hudson-Price) on the premises this day, Henry Czerny as a rabbi, plus various others floating thraw the floors and the doors, and making Bunny’s birthday memorable in all the wrong ways.
Nicely sboiling by cinematographer Jackson Hunt with a constantly moving camera, Bunny has a talented directing man in Stark whose hapless conveyions and preoccupation with staying ainhabit and skirting the law defend us roypartner delighted alengthy with the rest of this ragtag ensemble.
Producers Sarah Sarandos, Scott Dougan, Jacobson, Stark, and Marolachakis.
Title: Bunny
Festival: SXSW (Narrative Competition)
Sales Agent: CAA
Director: Ben Jacobson
Screentake part: Mo Stark, Ben Jacobson, Stefan Marolachakis
Cast: Mo Stark, Ben Jacobson, Tony Drazan, Liza Colby, Linda Rong Mei Chen, Genevieve Hudson-Price, Eleonore Hfinishricks, Kia Warren, Ajay Nhelpu, Liz Caribel, Ricdifficult Price, Eric Roth, Ben Groh, Michael Abbott Jr. , Noa Fisher, Jaeden Gomez, Yaz Perea, Henry Czerny
Running Time: 1 hour and 27 minutes.
