Fluffy Bunny Easter Marathon

Harvey (1950).  The delightful Jimmy Stewart vehicle about Elwood P. Dowd, a pleasant man who goes everywhere accompanied by his invisible six-foot rabbit, a pooka named Harvey.  A staple of community theaters and high schools, the story is a warm fantasy with Dowd's elderly sisters trying to get him committed and Cecil Kellaway as a shrink who realizes Harvey is real.  At Stewart's suggestion, the director shot Dowd to include the space alongside where the invisible rabbit would be standing.  

Space Jam (1996).  A highly successful pairing of Michael Jordan and Bugs Bunny, not to mention a cast of other Warners Brothers cartoon characters in their latest attempt to rework the franchise.  Foghorn Leghorn being burned up by the alien spacegun and croaking "do you want that original or extra crispy?" always cracks me up.  It may be Bill Murray's least favorite of his own movies, but everyone else dug it.  Unfortunately, the sequel with Brendan Frazier did not take off despite a priceless secret lab sequence in which stars of numerous 1950's monster movies make an appearance including the Man from Planet X, Robby the Robot, and a black and white Kevin McCarthy from Invasion of the Body Snatchers.  

Bambi (1942).  The animated Disney tale of an orphaned young deer and his friends, including the fultimate fluffy bunny, Thumper.  

Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1988).  A great movie where toons are real and live in a town just outside of Los Angeles (now there's a stretch!).  Roger, voiced by the Charles Fleischer, is a cartoon star framed for murder of the studio head.  Bob Hoskins is a PI who tries to figure out who did it.  Jack Nicholson was actually considered for that part.  Christopher Lloyd played the villainous toon Judge Doom, a part turned down by Christopher Lee.  

Fatal Attraction (1987).  When you see Michael Douglas's kids pet bunny for the second time, you realize that there's a reason he's getting the attention.  Enter Glenn Close.  Exit bunny.  

Night of the Lepus (1972).  Genetically altered bunnies emerge from a vast underground burrow as dog-sized carnivores who attack in a huge pack, moving in slo-mo.  Not too bad in other respects, but doomed by the giggle factor.  Stars Stuart Whitman, Janet Leigh, and DeForest (Star Trek) Kelley.    

Rabbit Test (1978).  Billy Crystal starred in this Joan Rivers-scripted-and-directed movie which plays exactly like a Joan Rivers standup routine.  The plot device is that Crystal is pregnant.  Highlight:  Imogene Coca and family are at dinner with dad Sid Ceasar and he announces they have hamster for dinner.  "And it's not even Thanksgiving!" exclaims Coca.  As I recall from my single viewing, despite the rapidfire spray of jokes, it's not very good.  

Wallace and Grommit and The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (2005).  A very successful movie in which Wallace and his dog, who is smarter than he is, try to figure out what is destroying their garden.  Gasp!  It's a giant were-rabbit!  

Watership Down (1999).  Animated version of the book about a sophisticated community of rabbits who face an outside threat to their warren.  

Alice in Wonderland (1951).  In this animated Disney film, there's the rabbit who leads Alice down the rabbit hole into Wonderland and, of course, the March Hare.