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The Brown Bunny

  • 2003
  • Not Rated
  • 1h 33m
IMDb RATING
4.9/10
16K
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Vincent Gallo and Chloë Sevigny in The Brown Bunny (2003)
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Professional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, b... Read allProfessional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, but only a certain woman from his past will truly satisfy him.Professional motorcycle racer Bud Clay heads from New Hampshire to California to race again. Along the way he meets various needy women who provide him with the cure to his own loneliness, but only a certain woman from his past will truly satisfy him.

  • Director
    • Vincent Gallo
  • Writer
    • Vincent Gallo
  • Stars
    • Vincent Gallo
    • Chloë Sevigny
    • Cheryl Tiegs
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  • IMDb RATING
    4.9/10
    16K
    YOUR RATING
    POPULARITY
    1,917
    412
    • Director
      • Vincent Gallo
    • Writer
      • Vincent Gallo
    • Stars
      • Vincent Gallo
      • Chloë Sevigny
      • Cheryl Tiegs
    • 245User reviews
    • 107Critic reviews
    • 51Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 2 wins & 7 nominations

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    Vincent Gallo
    Vincent Gallo
    • Bud Clay
    Chloë Sevigny
    Chloë Sevigny
    • Daisy
    • (as Chloe Sevigny)
    Cheryl Tiegs
    Cheryl Tiegs
    • Lilly
    Elizabeth Blake
    • Rose
    Anna Vareschi
    • Violet
    Mary Morasky
    • Mrs. Lemon
    Jeffrey Wood
    • Featured Racer
    Eric Wood
    • Featured Racer
    Michael Martire
    • Featured Racer
    Rick Doucette
    • Featured Racer
    Jim Lester
    • Featured Racer
    Michael Niksa
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    • Director
      • Vincent Gallo
    • Writer
      • Vincent Gallo
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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Chloë Sevigny claimed in interviews that the fellatio scene was not simulated. She said "It was tough, the toughest thing I've ever done, but Vincent was very sensitive to my needs, very gentle. . . . And we'd been intimate in the past."
    • Goofs
      When Bud speaks to Daisy's mother, a glass on the table appears and then disappears between shots.
    • Quotes

      Bud Clay: [sobbing] Why do you have to drink and take drugs?

    • Alternate versions
      Since its world premiere at Cannes the movie has been re-edited although the sex scenes remain intact. The version that premiered theatrically in the US is 26 minutes shorter than the Cannes cut.
    • Connections
      Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Vanity Fair/Anacondas: The Hunt for the Blood Orchid/Hero/Suspect Zero/The Brown Bunny (2004)
    • Soundtracks
      Tears for Dolphy
      Written and Composed by Ted Curson

      Courtesy of Nosruk Music

    User reviews245

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    Tapestry of Sadness
    The Brown Bunny, Vincent Gallo's latest travelogue of sorrow, charts the journey of the sort of disenchanted hero one comes across in the obituary page of their local paper. America, as seen through the window of Gallo's hollow black van, merges into a singular one-story wasteland of Main Streets lined with reds, whites and blues. Here, where many entertainment-seeking viewers will have long left the theater, one suddenly realizes that Gallo's is not a simple indie flick; but instead, a floating canvas able to tap into a higher meditative consciousness within the viewer. By creating a film of singular vision perhaps only attainable by doing what few directors have the tenacity or perseverance to undertake, Gallo has achieved what has eluded many an 'independent' director: a film created almost solely by the director. Gallo's characters are ethereal spirits cast upon a harsh, unfriendly world. Chloë Sevigny, in yet another hypnotic role as Daisy, redefines the modern insistence on two-dimensional antagonists. For Bud, Gallo playing the sort of brooding innocent Marlon Brando once jarred audiences with, the American tapestry becomes a home movie of the banality of human existence. Cheryl Tiegs, the popular Seventies model, makes an unexpected cinematic comeback, delivering a beautifully poetic performance as a lonely woman in a nowhere rest stop. In a sterile, white motel room, Gallo's film culminates with a scene of erotic abandon. Yet here again, the Audience, as an extension of Bud's own painful emptiness, will find no release. The arid lovemaking of this star-crossed couple, in a room lit like an operating room before a lobotomy, appears so natural that at its' heart could only be the sheer necessity of moral and emotional collapse seeking salvation. To see The Brown Bunny requires the sort of patience and reverence reserved for museums and galleries. For those few who choose, it can open the heart and the soul as only a masterpiece can.
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    • maratspolan
    • Sep 15, 2004

    Details

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    • Release date
      • November 14, 2003 (Austria)
    • Countries of origin
      • United States
      • Japan
    • Language
      • English
    • Also known as
      • Kahverengi Tavşan
    • Filming locations
      • Keene, New Hampshire, USA
    • Production companies
      • Gray Daisy Films
      • Kinetique
      • Vincent Gallo Productions
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $100,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $366,301
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $50,601
      • Aug 29, 2004
    • Gross worldwide
      • $402,599
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      1 hour 33 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 1.66 : 1

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