The House Bunny (2008)

After Playboy bunny Shelley is kicked out of the playboy mansion, she finds a job as the house mother for a sorority full of socially awkward girls.

Director:

Fred Wolf

Writers:

Karen McCullah, Kirsten Smith

Stars:

Anna Faris, Colin Hanks, Emma Stone

2 nominations.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Anna Faris	...	Shelley Darlingson
Colin Hanks	...	Oliver
Emma Stone	...	Natalie
Kat Dennings	...	Mona
Hugh Hefner	...	Hugh Hefner
Christopher McDonald	...	Dean Simmons
Beverly D'Angelo	...	Mrs. Hagstrom
Katharine McPhee	...	Harmony
Rumer Willis	...	Joanne
Kiely Williams	...	Lilly
Dana Goodman	...	Carrie Mae
Kimberly Makkouk	...	Tanya
Monet Mazur	...	Cassandra
Tyson Ritter	...	Colby
Sarah Wright	...	Ashley

Storyline

Finding family. Shelley Darlingson was raised in an orphanage, finally happy when she blossoms into a fox and moves into the Playboy Mansion. Unfortunately, she's summarily expelled on her 27th birthday(she's now too old). In desperation she takes a job as house mother for a sorority of misfits losing their house for lack of members. They have but a few months to find 30 pledges, or a sorority of mean girls will take over their place. Shelley figures that girls will pledge a house that boys find interesting, so she sets out to make the Zetas alluring, not act too smart, and host great parties. Can she succeed, and what about her own makeover? Sabotage is everywhere, plus it's hard to be one's self.

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Plot Keywords:

hottie movie | sorority | playboy bunny | scantily clad female | playboy model | 

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Taglines:

They wanted a role model. They got a Playmate.

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Genres:

Comedy | Romance

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Motion Picture Rating (MPAA)

Rated PG-13 for sex-related humor, partial nudity and brief strong language

Details

Official Sites:

MySpace.com Official site

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

22 August 2008 (USA)

Also Known As:

I Know What Boys Like

Filming Locations:

Playboy Mansion - 10236 Charing Cross Road, Holmby Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$25,000,000 (estimated)

Opening Weekend USA:

$14,533,702, 22 August 2008, Wide Release

Gross USA:

$48,237,389, 12 October 2008

Cumulative Worldwide Gross:

$70,442,940, 22 March 2009

Company Credits

Production Co:

Columbia Pictures, Relativity Media, Happy Madison Productions

Technical Specs

Runtime:

97 min

Sound Mix:

SDDS Dolby Digital DTS

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Did You Know?

Trivia

Happy Madison (2000) regulars Dan Patrick, Allen Covert, Jonathan Loughran, and Nick Swardson make cameos. Patrick is a cop, Covert is a waiter, Loughran is a drag queen in jail, and Swarsdon is a photographer.

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Goofs

Lily was established as the one who never talks at the beginning of the movie. Yet after Shelley says she had lived in the Playboy mansion, Lily whispers something in Harmony's ear, presumably in her British accent, so why are the Zetas later surprised that she spoke and is British?

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Quotes

Natalie: This is Harmony.
Shelley: [frog voice] Harmony.
[Harmony looks disturbed]
Natalie: And Carrie Mae.
Shelley: [frog voice] Carrie Mae.
Natalie: [points] And that's Joanne over there.
Shelley: [frog voice] Joanne.
[Joanne waves distributively]
Natalie: What is that? Is it like a Yoda, type of thing, I mean it's cool, fun, but?
Shelley: Oh, it's just this thing I do to remember people's names.
[...]

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Connections

Referenced in Who Wants to Be a Millionaire: Episode #7.167 (2009)

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Soundtracks

Hey! Go!
Written by Peter McEvilley
Performed by Peter McEvilley (as Peter "Peas" McEvilley)
Courtesy of Orange Table Entertainment
By Arrangement with Spirit Music Group

User Reviews

One-liners give this bunny bounce

Brains do not need to be engaged for this movie. But it does produce a few wonderful - and hilarious - surprises that make it a very enjoyable 90 minutes.

One is Anna Farris, who does a great twist on the archetypal dizzy blonde beloved of Hollywood since time immemorial.

But the real kickers are the jarring one-liners that pepper an otherwise sweet and predictable film. Several reduced this viewer to paroxysms of laughter, tears rolling down cheeks, beverage spurting across the room.

These moments, when they arrive, are so unexpected that the effect is one of firmly-flicked kipper on unprotected jowl. And none are in the "gross-out" style that one might have expected in a film of this genre.

Very bunny indeed.