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- 2023
- TV-MA
- STX Films
- 1 h 40 m
- 2023
- TV-MA
- STX Films
- 1 h 40 m
Summary As a fertility doctor, Sarah (Sarah Snook) has a firm understanding of the cycle of life. However, when she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter, Sarah must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
Directed By: Daina Reid
Written By: Hannah Kent
- 2023
- TV-MA
- STX Films
- 1 h 40 m
- 2023
- TV-MA
- STX Films
- 1 h 40 m
Run Rabbit Run
52
4.6
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Summary As a fertility doctor, Sarah (Sarah Snook) has a firm understanding of the cycle of life. However, when she is forced to make sense of the increasingly strange behavior of her young daughter, Sarah must challenge her own beliefs and confront a ghost from her past.
Directed By: Daina Reid
Written By: Hannah Kent
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
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25% Positive
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60% Mixed
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15% Negative
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Metascore
Mixed or Average
Based on 20 Critic Reviews
52
25% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
60% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
15% Negative
3 Reviews
3 Reviews
Sarah Snook turns in a terrific performance which is always true to the character at every point of a complex arc.
The story certainly doesn’t break new ground, and given the modest nature of the movie, there’s a bit of impatience to get where it’s going; still, thanks to Snook and LaTorre’s beyond-her-years performance it’s never less than watchable.
User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 User Ratings
4.6
7% Positive
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21% Negative
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User Score
Mixed or Average
Based on 14 User Ratings
4.6
7% Positive
1 Rating
1 Rating
71% Mixed
10 Ratings
10 Ratings
21% Negative
3 Ratings
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Even though the script and pacing of this film could have hugely benefited from much more work, Snook's performance and the brilliant score and cinematography of Run Rabbit Run make it worth your while.
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IN A NUTSHELL:
The story is about a fertility doctor who is struggling after the recent death of her father. Her daughter’s strange behavior challenges her ideas about life and death.
The movie is directed by Daina Reid, who returned to Australia after her successes on The Handmaid’s Tale and The Spanish Princess. Kudos to first-time screenwriter Hannah Kent, who wrote the screenplay from an idea conceived by Anna McLeish and Sarah Shaw of Carver Films.
THINGS I LIKED:
Sarah Snook gives an excellent performance. I had never seen her in anything before, although she has been in plenty of popular TV series.
The young actress who plays Mia also did a fantastic job. Her name is Lily LaTorre. I always worry about child actors being in scary movies and what that could do to them psychologically!
Beautiful cinematography.
If you love listening to cello music, you’ll enjoy the dramatic musical score.
It leaves the audience rethinking what they just saw.
THINGS I DIDN’T LIKE:
It’s VERY slow-moving.
It’s hard to like any of the characters.
The mother and daughter fight and scream at each other constantly.
So many scenes are repetitive and tiresome without any new insights.
Why do people NOT turn on the lights in their houses?
The lighting in most of the scenes is super dark.
The eery music makes you think SOMETHING is going to happen, but it usually doesn’t.SPOILER: I was annoyed that the rabbit is just a red herring.Some viewers won’t like the ambiguous ending.
TIPS FOR PARENTS:
Some profanity, including F-bombs
Some people get wounds from various things.
Talk of death.
A couple is divorced.
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It’s capable of quickly upshifting from tense to intense, and also of having the appearance of a scary movie rather than being one.
Gloomy and vague, Run Rabbit Run is a moody, noncommittal tease replete with the usual spectral signifiers: clammy dreams, scary drawings, unsettling masks. Snook does everything but rend her garments in a performance that only emphasizes the busy vapidity of Hannah Kent’s script.
While Snook does all she can to give the experience some heft, Run Rabbit Run is a horror film in search of something greater others have already achieved that it is never able to find.
Snook, of course, is typically excellent, fresh from her turn as Succession’s petulant, scheming Shiv Roy in another spiky role here – but even her performance, as it heightens towards a crazed delirium, recalls Toni Collette’s in Hereditary.
Run Rabbit Run does nothing to transcend its influences, finds nothing insightful to say about the various familial relationships its fails to explore, traps its talented cast in unmemorable characters, and — worst of all for a horror film — contains no scenes that are truly chilling and or any imagery that will stick in the viewer’s mind once the film is over.
Sarah Snook easily holds the film together, but it is a dull horror story with recycled themes and easy scares. A refusal to take risks.
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Sarah Snook is an amazing actress, but in her free time, she should choose better stories. The movie could have been better. The mystery created is good, but the final sequence kills all the vibe. That acting deserved a better finale.
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What I saw in Run Rabbit Run was a film with a pretty good concept but afflicted with extremely generic performance.
The only thing that kept me interested was the suspense, because the suspense was legitimately good, however it is ruined by a predictable and boring third act and conclusion. This film may appeal to some of the more hardcore psychological horror fans, but outside of that niche I don't think I'd recommend it to anyone else. And yes, Sarah Snook was completely wasted.
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This couldn't of been more boring. Bottom of the barrel "there's something wrong with the kid" movie.
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Production Company
Carver Films,
VicScreen,
XYZ Films
Release Date Jun 28, 2023
Duration 1 h 40 m
Rating TV-MA
Website
https://carverfilms.com/about
Awards
Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts (AACTA) Awards
• 2 Nominations
ReFrame
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
