Funny Bunny

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Funny Bunny
Funny Bunny poster.jpg
Poster
Directed byAlison Bagnall
Written by Olly Alexander
Kentucker Audley
Joslyn Jensen
Alison Bagnall
Produced byTed Speaker
Laura Heberton
Vinay Singh
Tara Ann Culp
StarringOlly Alexander
Kentucker Audley
Joslyn Jensen
Cinematography Ashley Connor
Edited byKentucker Audley
David Barker
Caleb Johnson
Music byMelanie Hsu
Production
companies
Magic Owl
Cervidae Films
Hot Metal Films
Distributed byFilmBuff
Release date
  • March 15, 2015 (2015-03-15)(SXSW)
Running time
86 minutes [1]
89 minutes [2]
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish

Funny Bunny is a 2015 American comedy drama film written by Olly Alexander, Kentucker Audley, Alison Bagnall and Joslyn Jensen, directed by Bagnall, and starring Alexander, Audley and Jensen. [1] [2]

Contents

Plot

Cast

Release

The film premiered at South by Southwest on March 15, 2015. [3] It was also screened on June 5, 2015 at the Brooklyn Film Festival. [4] Then it was released theatrically on November 13, 2015. [5]

Reception

The film has a 57% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on seven reviews. [6] Chuck Bowen of Slant Magazine awarded the film three stars out of four. [2]

Steve Dollar of The Wall Street Journal gave the film a positive review and wrote, “ Writer-director Alison Bagnall’s films don’t lack for compassionate, screwball humor, but their unique charms tend to be indivisible from their eccentricities.” [7]

Simon Abrams of The Village Voice gave the film a negative review and wrote, “ We watch three emotionally stunted strangers act out like spoiled, overgrown adolescents, forming a love triangle that’s not bizarre so much as obnoxious. But we never learn what draws these inarticulate characters together beyond mutual estrangement.” [8]

Awards

At the 18th Brooklyn Film Festival, Olly Alexander won the Best Actor Award and Kentucker Audley, David Barker and Caleb Johnson won the Best Editing Award. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 Lowe, Justin (November 10, 2015). "'Funny Bunny': AFI Fest Review". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  2. 1 2 3 4 Bowen, Chuck (November 8, 2015). "Review: Funny Bunny". Slant Magazine. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  3. Salovaara, Sarah (March 13, 2015). ""You Can't Make This Stuff Up": Alison Bagnall on Funny Bunny". Filmmaker. Retrieved June 7, 2025. Funny Bunny premieres Sunday in Narrative Competition at the SXSW Film Festival.
  4. Mattlin, Meredith (June 1, 2015). "Watch: Olly Alexander Comes of Age in Exclusive 'Funny Bunny' Trailer". IndieWire. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  5. Saepoff, Sonya (November 12, 2015). "Exclusive 'Funny Bunny' Poster Teases Alison Bagnall's Eerie Coming-of-Age Tale". IndieWire. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  6. "Funny Bunny". Rotten Tomatoes. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  7. Dollar, Steve (November 11, 2015). "A New Look at Vintage Film Noir, Plus Films From the Philippines". The Wall Street Journal. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  8. Abrams, Simon (November 10, 2015). "Three-Way Love Comedy 'Funny Bunny' Puts You in Bed With People You Don't Want to Be Around". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 7, 2025.
  9. Sharf, Zack (June 9, 2015). "'Sweaty Betty,' 'Funny Bunny' Win Big at 18th Brooklyn Film Festival". IndieWire. Retrieved June 7, 2025.