Bunny

2025

Action / Comedy / Drama / Thriller

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Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Certified Fresh 79% · 14 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 79%
IMDb Rating 6.0/10 10 474 474

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Director

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Ben Jacobson

Top cast

Richard Price Photo
Richard Price as Ian
Eric Roth Photo
Eric Roth as Franklin
Eleonore Hendricks Photo
Eleonore Hendricks as Daphne
Michael Abbott Jr. Photo
Michael Abbott Jr. as Officer Belle
2160p.WEB.x265
4.02 GB
3840*2080
English 5.1
NR
Subtitles us  fr  
23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
Seeds 15

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by muratmmansur 7 / 10

Good movie with authentic flair

Being from new york, it's a movie that definitely hits home and has a very nostalgic feel too. When I used to live in the village, but the movie itself had moments where it made me laugh out loud and had a certain chaotic cohesiveness to it that gave you a complete story. Dino and Bunny are great together. I would like to see them in another Giy Richie-esq crime/comedy film.
Reviewed by Steve_Ramsey 10 / 10

One of the most exciting aspects of attending a film festival is the element of discovery: randomly screening one film that completely resonates with me. At South by Southwest 2025, that unexpected gem was Bunny, a briskly paced comedy-thriller made on a tiny budget with an utterly irresistible cast of characters. Out of all the films I screened, this is the one that leaves me with a smile on my face every time I think about it.I hadn't planned on seeing Bunny. In fact, it was only because I couldn't get into another screening that I ended up in the theater. I had no idea what to expect, and within minutes, I was hooked. The premise is simple: a couple of friends enlist their neighbors to help hide a dead body. But rather than unfolding as a tense crime thriller, Bunny embraces chaos with a sharp, quick-witted comedic sensibility. The film is bursting with charm, and its naturalistic performances make it feel entirely authentic.The world created here feels lived-in and real. The dialogue is unforced and has a certain rhythm to it, making it feel like we're following along in real-time as the events unfold. The cast is partially made up of actual tenants of the apartment building where the movie was filmed, the actual home of the filmmakers. There's an organic quality to their interactions, a real sense of community and family that makes the central absurdity of the story feel believable.At the heart of the film is Bunny (Mo Stark), a character who exudes an oddball charisma that makes him instantly likable. There's something magnetic about the way Stark plays him, as if he's both completely in over his head and also entirely at ease and in command of the chaos surrounding him. The movie never takes itself too seriously, never losing its emotional core even as the characters make increasingly ridiculous (but always amusing) choices.Writer-director Ben Jacobson (who also plays Dino) takes an approach that's both bold and intimate. The handheld camerawork adds to the frenetic energy, moving up and down stairwells, weaving in and out of cramped apartments, and constantly shifting perspectives. The film never lingers in one place for too long. It's a fairly large cast, yet every character is distinct, each with their own quirks and idiosyncrasies that make them memorable. It's rare to find a film with this many characters where none of them feel like filler.It's a single location setting - a small, somewhat gritty apartment building in New York. The film is, in many ways, a love letter to the city, capturing the kind of found families that can form among neighbors in close quarters. There's a rawness to it, but also a deep affection. You get the sense that Jacobson and Stark know and love this space intimately, that they're capturing something real about the way people connect in a place like this.Beyond its humor and heart, Bunny does have a thrilling undercurrent, driven by the central dilemma of what to do with the body. While the stakes are never played as deadly serious, there's still an element of tension that keeps driving the story forward. Watching the characters scramble to figure out a plan, and seeing how their own personalities and relationships influence their actions is delightful.I get so happy experiencing art made with such passion. After the screening, I had the chance to speak with Jacobson and Stark, and their enthusiasm was infectious. Seeing how excited they were to have their small indie film premiere at a major festival was a reminder of why I love movies in the first place. Big-budget Hollywood productions rarely carry this kind of raw energy and personal investment. This wasn't a film made to fit neatly into a marketing plan or to chase box office numbers; it was made because the people behind it had to make it. That passion radiates off the screen.It's also worth noting how universally well Bunny was received. Everyone I spoke to after the screening was buzzing about it. It's the kind of film that makes me feel like I need to immediately text my friends about. There was no other film I watched at SxSW that gave me the kind of pure, unexpected delight that this one did.At just ninety minutes, Bunny moves at a frenetic pace and never lets up. I could have spent another thirty minutes with these characters. There's a warmth to it, and an energy that's infectious. It's chaotic and comforting, both wild and human.Bunny will be on my list of the best films of 2025. I can't wait to see it again, and I can't wait for more people to fall in love with these unforgettable characters.
Reviewed by Papaya_Horror 9 / 10

A Stoned Claustrophobia Satire in a Sweltering Manhattan Block.

Bunny is an unexpectedly delightful little gem of 2025-a gust of darkly comic fresh air that throw us back to those 90s films about wayward youngsters, urban chaos and sharp-edged satire.Crime and drama collide inside a Downtown Manhattan block populated by an assortment of eccentrics who feel as though they've been marinating there for decades.Ben Jacobson's feature debut-in which he also plays Dino a perpetually-stoned character-an homage to the 80s and 90s indie cinema that once rendered New York a dreamlike playground where anything could happen, inhabited with uniquely weird residents and charmingly absurd situations.It evokes works from filmmakers such as Larry Clark, whose gritty, off-the-cuff street films were made on shoestring budgets by directors desperate to capture the wild ecosystem below 14th Street-now, a prohibitively expensive, feels-like exclusive club.The narrative is as chaotic as it is entertaining, steeped in pitch-black humour and a sense of belonging for anyone who has ever lived in New York or another exciting but exhausting metropolis-this resonates to me as a lost soul/orphan of London life-and who recognises the madness embodied by these characters.Co-written by Jacobson, co-star Mo Stark (who plays Bunny) and Stefan Marolachakis-presumably under a cloud of cannabis vapour thick enough to classify as weather - the film unfolds over a single, sweltering summer's day.Everything goes off the rails almost immediately and deteriorates spectacularly as drugs are inhaled, people are murdered and the NYPD arrives solely to debate weirdos and shawarma.At the centre of the mayhem is Bunny: a look-like Californian hipster surfer teleported onto 2nd Avenue, and who functions as the building's unofficial super.It's his birthday, and while he spends the day assisting tenants and wandering about with his best mate Dino, he manages to land himself in serious trouble when he strangles a man who confronts him over something tied to his side-hustle as a part-time gigolo.Chaotic yet assuredly directed, Bunny lurches after these two dedicated weedhounds as they stumble from one calamity to the next, attempting to conceal the corpse while increasingly ludicrous scenarios pile up around them.Set almost entirely within the building, it exudes a kind of stoned claustrophobia-not a drama about addiction, but a deliriously fun watch filled with tenants who are either the neighbours you never knew you needed or the ones someone else would quite happily have deported.The camera darts hysterically between still shots and the hand-shaken chaos the story needs to be told, with a fair number of one-take flourishes that complement the natural-light cinematography. It captures the look and feel of a real building-inside and on the sidewalk just outside-with impressive fidelity.The film isn't burdened with lofty thematic ambitions; instead, it revels in constructing a cavalcade of antics ripe for comic exploitation-if not always for credibility.But this is precisely the sort of film where authenticity is beside the point. It's a romp, and it gives its cast ample space to play.It's the perfect film for switching off your brain, tossing your thoughts out the nearest window, and simply enjoying the wild ride-a vision of New York that many of us (I hazardly guess) still dream about.
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