Synopsis
Bud Clay races motorcycles in the 250cc Formula II class of road racing. After a race in New Hampshire, he has five days to get to his next race in California. During his road trip, he is haunted by memories of the last time he saw Daisy, his true love.
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Cast
- Vincent GalloBud Clay
- Chloë SevignyDaisy Lemon
- Cheryl TiegsLilly
- Elizabeth BlakeRose
- Anna VareschiViolet
- Mary MoraskyMrs. Lemon
Recommendations
- 75
Entertainment Weekly
It's hard to deny that Gallo has caught the freedom and melancholy, the intoxicating aimlessness, the lonely twilight beauty of a solo road trip in a way that no previous filmmaker quite has. - 70
Variety
An astonishing improvement on the original version. With 27 minutes excised, pic emerges from its mind-numbing undergrowth as a memorable -- if still highly specialized -- exercise in personal, '70s-style American filmmaking, with a cohesive feel and rhythm that marks Gallo as a distinctive indie talent. - 70
Village Voice
It's genuinely elemental, embarrassingly sincere. You can't accuse Gallo of pandering to anyone but himself. Not just a one-man band, he is his own entourage -- and likely to remain so. And that anguished solipsism seems to be, at least in part, the movie's subject. - 70
The A.V. Club
If the independent film world were littered with alleged disasters like The Brown Bunny, the scene would be far richer for it. - 60
The New York Times
Neither an atrocity nor a revelation, The Brown Bunny is a very watchable, often beautiful-looking attempt by Mr. Gallo to reproduce the kind of loosely structured mood pieces that found American and select foreign-language cinemas of the 1960's and 70's often at their most adventurous. - 50
Christian Science Monitor
Gallo's earlier work suggests he has directorial talent, but here it's buried beneath too much ego to be detectible. - 38
ReelViews
The Brown Bunny is one long, self-indulgent bore topped off with a hard-core porn scene featuring Gallo and co-star Chloë Sevigny. - 30
Wall Street Journal
An excruciatingly embarrassing display of ego and ineptitude.
