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Vincent Gallo, Chloë Sevigny, Cheryl Tiegs, Cheyl Tiegs, Elizabeth Blake ... see more see more... , Anna Vareschi , Mary Morasky

Actor and musician Vincent Gallo takes on the role of writer, director, editor, cinematographer, and star with his second filmmaking effort, The Brown Bunny. Motorcycle racer Bud Clay (Gallo) drives h... read more read more...is van across the country in search of his lost love, Daisy (Chloë Sevigny). He stops at her parents' house and sees the brown bunny she left behind. Along the rest of the way, he stops for gas, rides his bike, and makes out with a woman at a roadside rest area (Cheryl Tiegs). He meets up with Daisy when he finally arrives in Los Angeles, leading to the revelatory conclusion in his hotel room. The Brown Bunny premiered in competition at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival in a working cut of 119 minutes that was widely panned; a 93 minute final edit was shown at subsequent festivals and premiered in the United States in the summer of 2004. ~ Andrea LeVasseur, Rovi

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Unrated, 1 hr. 33 min.

Directed by: Vincent Gallo

Release Date: September 3, 2004

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DVD Release Date: August 16, 2005

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  • flixsterman
    March 22, 2010
    flixsterman
    Vincent Gallo's self-indulgent experiment that succeeds on some levels and fails on others. Controversial because of the "real" sex scenes, The Brown Bunny has limited mainstream appeal and a growing cult following.

    The problem here is that Gallo has about 30 minutes of ... read moregood material and about 90 minutes of screen time to fill. Characters take literally minutes to say two or three words. The end result is a film that's sometimes interesting and often excruciating.
  • SirPant
    September 7, 2009
    SirPant
    Vincent Gallo's ego gets the better of him in this disappointing and self-indulgent follow up to the brilliant Buffalo 66. The direction is fine, as are most of the performances, I even liked the (albeit) predictable ending. I'm just not a huge Sevigny fan, both her and Gallo com... read moree across as quite arrogant, and as for 'that scene', put it away you dirty old man!
  • wildaly14
    July 19, 2009
    wildaly14
    Boring and shocking.
  • YLOWBSTARDreturns
    January 31, 2008
    YLOWBSTARDreturns
    I've only seen the 118 minute version, and it was pretty terrible. Any respect I ever had for Chloe Sevigny was lost right here.
  • deano
    December 18, 2007
    deano
    Self-indulgent vanity piece stars writer-director Vincent Gallo as a scruffy loner and motorcycle racer who leaves New Hampshire for Los Angeles for another race and one last attempt to reconcile with his former girlfriend. Tiresome road trips spins its wheels but goes nowhere. N... read moreotorious climax feels more like an excuse to expose the filmmaker rather than the character's soul.
  • kiriyamakazou
    August 5, 2007
    kiriyamakazou
    Vincent Gallo provides us with his view and mediation on crushing loneliness. Gallo does basically everything himself and so I applaud him for a rather pure and individual artistic vision. For many this will simply be 90 minutes of nothing happening but it perfectly captures the ... read moreisolation of it's main character. The final segment is one of graphic tenderness. It is for the most part slow and unengaging, that possibly being the point, but since this is Gallo's film it really doesn't matter what I or anybody else thinks.
  • gator681
    June 28, 2006
    gator681
    [font=Century Gothic]In "The Brown Bunny", Bud Clay(Vincent Gallo) is a professional motorcycle racer who is driving cross-country to Los Angeles where he is looking forward to meeting up with his lady love, Daisy(Chloe Sevigny), who he has not seen in quite a long time.[/font]

    ... read more
    [font=Century Gothic]Written, directed, edited, and photographed by Vincent Gallo(but hopefully had nothing to do with the catering), "The Brown Bunny", is not a bad movie but not an especially good one, either. Technically, it is rather awful and it would have helped if Gallo had employed other people to help out. [/font]

    [font=Century Gothic]The first hour of the movie consists of Clay driving and driving and driving and driving...(I already know what an interstate highway looks like through a windshield, thank you, and it is almost never that interesting). He does briefly stop in his old Pennsylvania hometown and to chat up the occasional woman. The last third wraps everything up and gives the viewer a good idea as to what, if anything, Clay may have been thinking on his journey but the ending is also confusing, a cheat, unoriginal and demeaning.[/font]
  • michaelcorleone
    November 19, 2009
    michaelcorleone
    I realize that half the people who see my rating for this film are immediately going to assume that I am either pretentious or clueless. I also personally know specific people who, after watching this movie, would want to have my head for giving it such a high rating. For this re... read moreason, I feel obligated to explain my admiration for it. With this piece, Gallo disregards every conventional approach possible, which a lot of people interpret as iconoclastic self-indulgence. I see it as appropriate within the context of this movie, and I think it's a tragically beautiful work in its own right. Functioning as a distant character study in which we know very little about the person being examined, The Brown Bunny asks us to give back a lot. I was willing to give it my complete attention, and I found it to be a haunting and uniquely profound experience. This is one of the saddest films I've seen in a while, and the conclusion will leave a resounding impact on most people. If you're interested in seeing it simply on the basis of the famous blowjob scene, don't bother watching it. This isn't what you're looking for.
  • HenrikSchunk
    July 8, 2009
    HenrikSchunk
    I am not really a fan of bordercrosser movies. Films that feel like a documentary, documentaries that feel like movies, children's movies that feel like music videos, music videos that feel like old movies, old movies that feel like new moves etc etc etc. In my opinion those thin... read moregs only appeal to people who are not aquainted with one of the two elements and therefore fascinated by the aspects, which is pretty much nothing but a mere testament to their limited horizon. The Brown Bunny included a "real" sex scene, so what , so does every porn movie, I do not see the speciality in it really.Pretentious crap.

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  • lovablemisanthrope
    November 24, 2008
    lovablemisanthrope
    I don't think it is as bad as people say, but it's still a pretty bad movie.

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Terry Lawson
October 15, 2004
Terry Lawson, Detroit Free Press

A passable, if often dreary, evocation of those '70s road movies in which disillusioned young men (and the occasional woman) took to the highway in search of America, the meaning of things or maybe ju... Full Review

Robert Denerstein
October 8, 2004
Robert Denerstein, Denver Rocky Mountain News

A road movie, but made by someone who seems so self-absorbed he might as well be asleep at the wheel.

Michael Booth
October 8, 2004
Michael Booth, Denver Post

What plays for 80 minutes like an intolerable, self-indulgent road trip largely redeems itself in the last 10 minutes, through a moving explanation of the anti-hero's catatonic depression. Full Review

Colin Covert
September 30, 2004
Colin Covert, Minneapolis Star Tribune

So mind-numbingly dull it makes you yearn for one of those World War II-spy instant-death pills. Full Review

Charles Taylor
September 18, 2004
Charles Taylor, Salon.com

Must be one of the truest songs of roadside America that the movies have produced. Full Review

Charles Ealy
September 16, 2004
Charles Ealy, Dallas Morning News

Narcissisistic, self-indulgent, solipsistic claptrap is still narcissistic, self-indulgent, solipsistic claptrap, no matter how long or short. Full Review

David Edelstein
September 15, 2004
David Edelstein, Slate

I don't know that I've ever encountered a filmmaker who wants to be loved so badly on his own wheedling, whiny, abrasive, motherless, misogynistic, and -- last but not least -- non-narrative terms. Full Review

Steven Rea
September 10, 2004
Steven Rea, Philadelphia Inquirer

Less a story of undying love and passion than a singularly focused lovefest. And it's a self-lovefest, really, no matter who the flower girl is.

Stephen Hunter
September 10, 2004
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post

It's not really a movie. I suppose it's what could be called a recorded behavior. Full Review

Desson Thomson
September 10, 2004
Desson Thomson, Washington Post

Luckily, Sevigny has a promising future before her, and this bizarre little diversion will soon scamper into the wild grass, never to be seen again. Full Review

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