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词条 The House Bunny
释义

  1. Plot

  2. Cast

  3. Production

  4. Reception

     Critical reception  Box office 

  5. Home media

  6. Music

  7. References

  8. External links

{{Infobox film
| name = The House Bunny
| image = House bunny.jpg
| alt =
| caption = Theatrical release poster
| director = Fred Wolf
| producer = {{ubl|Adam Sandler|Jack Giarraputo|Allen Covert|Heather Parry}}
| writer = {{ubl|Karen McCullah Lutz|Kirsten Smith}}
| starring = {{ubl|Anna Faris|Colin Hanks|Emma Stone|Kat Dennings|Christopher McDonald|Beverly D'Angelo|Hugh Hefner}}
| music = Waddy Wachtel
| cinematography = Shelly Johnson
| editing = Debra Chiate
| studio = {{ubl|Relativity Media|Happy Madison Productions|Alta Loma Entertainment}}
| distributor = Columbia Pictures
| released = {{Start date|2008|08|22}}
| runtime = 97 minutes
| country = United States
| language = English
| budget = $25 million
| gross = $70.4 million[1]
}}

The House Bunny is a 2008 American comedy film directed by Fred Wolf and written by Kirsten Smith and Karen McCullah Lutz. It stars Anna Faris as a former Playboy bunny who signs up to be the "house mother" of an unpopular university sorority after finding out she must leave the Playboy Mansion. Also starring Colin Hanks and Emma Stone, the film was released on August 22, 2008.

Plot

Shelley Darlington (Anna Faris) is an aspiring Playboy Playmate living the life of luxury in the Playboy Mansion. The day after her 27th birthday, she awakes to find a note, seemingly from Hugh Hefner, asking her to pack up and leave. She happens to stumble upon a group of girls who remind her of herself: beautiful and fun. She follows them and sees that they live in luxury too. They turn out to be the Phi Iota Mu sorority, and snobbishly reject her when she tries to join them.

She makes her way down to the Zeta Alpha Zeta house, which appears to be far less luxurious than the first sorority she visited. The members of the Zeta house are dowdy, socially awkward, and caught off guard by Shelley's bubbly nature, prompting them to initially reject her. Once they see Shelley's ability to attract boys, the Zetas change their mind and take in Shelley as their new "house mother", hoping that she can save them: their sorority is in danger of being shut down unless they can get thirty new pledges to join.

During her time spent with the Zetas, Shelley meets and becomes attracted to an intellectual, altruistic guy named Oliver (Colin Hanks), who works at a retirement home. Shelley goes out on a date with Oliver, and while her flirty tactics work with most guys, they fail with him, for he is a guy who actually wants to get to know Shelley rather than just sleep with her. To impress Oliver on their upcoming second date, Shelley starts attending classes and reading books, and tones down her appearance. The second date is also a disaster because she wears glasses that aren't meant for her, and brings along note cards to help her sound smart.

Having gotten a makeover and lessons on how to attract guys and be popular, the Zetas throw a party, which is a huge success. Later, the Zetas are reviewing the girls who are hoping to pledge to Zeta, but their new popularity has made them conceited. When they realize what they've become, they blame Shelley—just as she returns from her unsuccessful date.

Although Shelley had just been invited back to the Playboy Mansion (after Hefner had learned of the forged dismissal) and decided to stay with the Zetas, the unexpected attack from them makes her reconsider, and she calls back to accept the invitation. The Zetas then feel guilty, and decide to give themselves a second makeover, this time being "Half-Shelley and Half-Themselves". They also decide to draw the pledges out at random, instead of judging them. They show up at Shelley's photo shoot and ask for her to come back, to which she agrees, having changed her mind about her dream of being a centerfold.

The rival Phi Iota Mu sorority intercepts the invitations and prevents them from being mailed out, so the Zetas are again in danger of being shut down at the campus meeting of the Panhellenic Council. Shelley crashes the meeting and gives a heartfelt speech about what her experience with the Zetas has taught her about love and acceptance, and asks for pledges on the spot; gradually thirty students agree to pledge, and the sorority is saved. Oliver and Shelley reconcile, and Shelley explains that she likes Oliver a lot and was trying too hard to impress him. They decide to start over with their relationship and Oliver is looking forward to getting to know the "real" Shelley.

The film ends with Zetas and their new pledges celebrating. Shelley has remained in close contact with Hefner and her friends at the Playboy Mansion.

Cast

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  • Anna Faris as Shelley Darlingson
  • Colin Hanks as Oliver
  • Emma Stone as Natalie
  • Kat Dennings as Mona
  • Katharine McPhee as Harmony
  • Rumer Willis as Joanne
  • Kiely Williams as Lilly
  • Dana Goodman as Carrie Mae
  • Kimberly Makkouk as Tanya
  • Monet Mazur as Cassandra
  • Sarah Wright as Ashley
  • Rachel Specter as Courtney
  • Beverly D'Angelo as Mrs. Hagstrom
  • Hugh Hefner as himself
  • Tyson Ritter as Colby
  • Owen Benjamin as Marvin
  • Christopher McDonald as Dean Simmons
  • Matt Barr as Tyler
Cameos
  • Justin Baldoni as Waiter
  • Allen Covert as Waiter
  • Dan Patrick as Cop
  • Nick Swardson as Playboy Photographer
  • Jonathan Loughran as crossdressing prisoner
  • Holly Madison as herself
  • Kendra Wilkinson as herself
  • Bridget Marquardt as herself
  • Shaquille O'Neal as Himself
  • Matt Leinart as himself
  • Sara Jean Underwood as herself
  • Lauren Michelle Hill as herself
  • Louise Cochrane as herself
  • Hayley Fisher as herself
{{div col end}}

Production

Faris had pitched the film's concept to a few companies and Adam Sandler's company, Happy Madison picked it up. The working title of the film was I Know What Boys Like. The film was made during summer 2007.

Reception

Critical reception

On Rotten Tomatoes the film has an approval rating of 43% based on 124 reviews, with an average rating of 5.1/10. The site’s critical consensus reads, "Anna Faris is game, but she can't salvage this middling, formulaic comedy."[2] On Metacritic, the film has a weighted average score of 55 out of 100, based on 22 critics, indicating "mixed or average reviews".[3] Audiences polled by CinemaScore gave the film an average grade of "B+" on an A+ to F scale.[4]

Varietys John Anderson stated that the film is a "Blissfully broad comedy that should catapult Anna Faris into a singular kind of stardom."[5]

Box office

On August 22, 2008, The House Bunny was released in the US. It debuted at #1 on its first day of release making $5.91 million, but ultimately landed in second place for its opening weekend, making $14.53 million,[6] behind Ben Stiller's action-comedy film Tropic Thunder, which made $16.2 million. The film had grossed $70 million worldwide ($48 million at the North American domestic box office and $22 million internationally)[1] as of March 22, 2009. The film debuted in the UK chart at #1 grossing almost $1 million in its first weekend.

Home media

The film was released on DVD and Blu-ray on December 19, 2008. It was released in a 6-movie collection called The Laugh Out Loud Collection with other Happy Madison films in 2013.

Music

Though a soundtrack was not released, a single was released to iTunes on July 16, 2008.{{Citation needed|date=January 2009}} The single was a cover of The Waitresses song, "I Know What Boys Like" (produced by Chad Hugo of The Neptunes) as performed by Katharine McPhee (featuring Kat Dennings, Emma Stone, and Rumer Willis). The film also featured songs by artists including:

  • Bow Wow Wow – "I Want Candy"
  • The All-American Rejects – "I Wanna"
  • Altered Images – "Happy Birthday"
  • Madonna – "Like a Virgin"
  • Rihanna – "Take a Bow"
  • The Pussycat Dolls – "When I Grow Up"
  • Katharine McPhee (feat. Kat Dennings, Emma Stone, and Rumer Willis) – "I Know What Boys Like"
  • Ashlee Simpson – "Boys"
  • Metro Station – "Shake It"
  • DJ Colette – "Think You Want It" produced by Tim K
  • The Cab – "I'll Run"
  • Elizaveta – "Like Water"
  • Yael Naim – "New Soul"
  • The Kills – "Sour Cherry"
  • Boys Like Girls – "The Great Escape"
  • The Ting Tings – "Great DJ" and "Shut Up and Let Me Go"
  • Ingrid Michaelson – "Be OK"
  • Avril Lavigne – "Girlfriend"
  • Mercedes – Better Than a Psychic
  • P!nk – "U + Ur Hand" (Trailers)
  • Jennifer Lopez – "Do It Well" (Trailers)[7]

References

1. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=housebunny.htm | title = The House Bunny (2008) | publisher = IMDB | work = Box Office Mojo | accessdate = 2010-11-27 }}
2. ^{{cite web | url = http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/house_bunny | title = The House Bunny | publisher = Flixster | work = Rotten Tomatoes | accessdate = April 18, 2018 }}
3. ^{{Metacritic film|the-house-bunny|The House Bunny reviews}}
4. ^{{cite web |url=https://m.cinemascore.com |title=The House Bunny |work=CinemaScore|accessdate=September 28, 2014}}
5. ^Anderson, John (2008-08-20). The House Bunny – Movie Reviews. Variety. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
6. ^John M. Guilfoil (2008-08-24). The Hollywood Charts, Aug. 24. BlastMagazine.com. Retrieved 2010-11-27.
7. ^ReelSoundtrack – Music Soundtrack – The House Bunny (2008). Retrieved 2010-11-27.

External links

  • {{Official website|http://www.sonypictures.com/movies/thehousebunny}}
  • {{IMDb title|0852713}}
  • {{amg movie|414475}}
  • {{mojo title|housebunny}}
  • {{rotten-tomatoes|house_bunny}}
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