Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day at a new nursery school. Oddly,.. Read more
| Starring | Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Keir Dullea |
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| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
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Based on the mystery novel by Marryam Modell (using the pseudonym Evelyn Piper), Bunny Lake Is Missing is a bizarre study in motherhood, kindness, enigma, and insanity. Ann Lake (Carol Lynley), an American freshly relocated to England, wishes to drop off her daughter Bunny for the girl's first day at a new nursery school. Oddly, Ann cannot locate any teachers or administrators, only the school's disgruntled cook (Lucie Mannheim). She is forced to leave Bunny unsupervised in the building's first day room, under the reassurance that the cook will be responsible for the child. When Ann returns in the afternoon, the cook has quit and Bunny Lake is missing. The school's remaining employees vehemently deny ever seeing the child, and Ann desperately calls her older brother Stephen (Keir Dullea) for help. Ann was raised fatherless and never married; she and Bunny have lived under Stephen's care and protection for the majority of both their lives. Stephen is enraged by the irresponsibility of the staff, but as Scotland Yard begins its investigation, it comes to light that he had never officially enrolled a child at the school. When Police Superintendent Newhouse (Laurence Olivier) begins to unravel the Lakes' lives and search their belongings, he discovers that not only did Ann once have an imaginary childhood daughter named Bunny, but that the young Bunny seemed to have no tangible possessions at the Lake apartment. Bunny Lake (whom we have yet to see onscreen) may not be missing: she may not even be real. Terrified that Newhouse will now abandon the search for the girl, the hysterical Ann sets out to prove her sanity and, in the process, surprisingly uncovers the true psychosis behind the disappearance of her little Bunny Lake.~ Aubry Anne D'Arminio, All Movie Guide
| Starring | Laurence Olivier, Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Keir Dullea, Martita Hunt, Anna Massey, Clive Revill |
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| Director | Otto Preminger |
| Studio | SONY PICTURES HOME ENTERTAINMENT |
| Run time | DVD: 1 hr 55 mins |
| Certificate |  |
| Genres | Drama, Thriller |
| Language | DVD: English |
| Released | Production year: 1965 To Rent: DVD: 17 May 2010 |
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Where's Bunny?
This film stands the test of time.
It keeps you on the edge of your seat.
Carol Lynley is engaging as the mother desperate to find her ... read more »
[Highly rated reviewer]
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Interesting period piece
Ultimately a rather weak film but it was interesting to watch as a social record of how it was in the mid 1960's. It did start quite interestingly (and the ... read more »
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Reasonable thriller soft ending
The trouble with trying to display madness on the screen is that writers come up with some scenic but not believable and that mars this film.
What ... read more »
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Starts well and then degenerates
There's some good performances in this thriller/psychological drama apart from a queasily embarrassing part for Noel Coward as a character who adds nothing ... read more »
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