Get to Know Your Rabbit

Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)

Donald Beeman was a top executive with a $9,000 sports car, a penthouse, and a terrific blonde...Then he found happiness.

A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?

Date of release
1972-06-07
TMDB
5.0 / 10 (25)
Runtime
1h 31m
Genres
Comedy
Director
Brian De Palma

Casting

Interesting facts

Get to Know Your Rabbit is a 1972 American comedy film written by Jordan Crittenden and directed by Brian De Palma.

Production

Brian De Palma achieved success with his 1968 underground comedy Greetings and was hired by Warner Bros. to direct Get to Know Your Rabbit in 1970 after he had directed a follow-up to Greetings called Hi, Mom!. While very much a studio picture, Get to Know Your Rabbit was in line with De Palma's previous films, which were mainly comedies.

Much of the film's comedy is rooted in the traditional British absurdist sense of humor associated with Monty Python and The Goon Show. Jordan Crittenden's screenplay is filled with oddball characters and bizarre situations, such as Miss Simmons, a bomber who is put on hold when she phones to announce that her device will explode in six minutes and a beautiful young woman (Katharine Ross) who confesses to Donald that her crush on the paperboy pro…

Warner Bros. and star Tommy Smothers felt uneasy about De Palma's direction because of his limited experience. According to De Palma, Smothers so disliked the film that he disappeared for several shooting days and refused to return for retakes. Unhappy with De Palma's cut of the film, the studio asked Peter Nelson, credited onscreen as executive producer, to recut it and direct a new sequence, but the film was not released for several years.

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