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Mo Stark

SXSW Film Review: Bunny
What do you do with a dead body? Call your friends.

Rod Machen

SXSW Film Review: Bunny
What do you do with a dead body? Call your friends.

A tenement building in the East Village of New York City. A large cast of outsized characters. Throw in a dead body, and now you've got a movie. Bunny, by first-time director Ben Jacobson, harnesses all of this energy for the tale of a night to remember.

The titular character, Bunny (Mo Stark, a co-writer with Jacobson and Stefan Marolachakis), contains multitudes. We first meet him running down a Manhattan street, blood on his clothes, his long hair disheveled from the effort. A voiceover tells us that he's a hustler, a sex worker. As he makes his way back to his building, we start to see that this seemingly muscled tough is actually the glue that keeps the entire apartment running.

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