A trite and severely disheartening comedy from '71, 'Bunny O' Hare' stars two tired actors, Bette Davis and Borgnine, who was but a character actor, mastering one routine; and as a redneck melodrama about the misfortunes, loss and misery of the old age, 'Bunny O'Hare' is a rather cheap, unpleasant and essentially vulgar sentimental exploitation, and also, and more gravely and saddening, of geriatric exploitation, and it shows, together with countless other useless movies, that in the '70s the American cinema had already became a mindless business. It is also true this kind of movie goes right against my very notion of cinema, either as art or as _divertissement, so I'm in no position to judge it fairly.
We are supposed to laugh at Bette Davis' physical training for the bank robbery. Two old farts pass as two hippies. The satire is uninteresting (Greeley and the hippies' counterculture), the senile romance (B. Davis and Borgnine) is lousy.
We are supposed to laugh at Bette Davis' physical training for the bank robbery. Two old farts pass as two hippies. The satire is uninteresting (Greeley and the hippies' counterculture), the senile romance (B. Davis and Borgnine) is lousy.