Bunnyland

(USA, 2008, 87 mins)

digibeta

Midwest Premiere

assistant directors: Morgan Jon Fox, Katherine Dohan
production company: Sawed-Off Collaboratory Pictures

• IMDB Film Info
• www.bunnylandmovie.com
• Trailer

“Of course it makes sense to start from the beginning….I always picture myself as actually the last Indian, that got put on the Trail of Tears, ’cause that’s what it was….I had a great life. As a matter of fact, I used to say ‘Why is my life so good?” And then it changed, literally, changed. I should’ve never said that.” Thus begins Johnny Tesar’s — call him Johnny Rock — “road through life, take one.” Pigeon Forge is a Tennessee mountain resort town, one that most of us would ever know through a visit to nearby Dollywood. But deep in the heart of Appalachia we get to know Johnny, an avid rock collector who has plenty of stories to share. When he insists that a handful of minerals were carved by members of an ancient civilization, you might think that this is one of those documentaries: a tame story of a quirky fella and his obsessions. But then there’s the story of the mini-golf course that he co-owned with a friend. (Bunnyland was named for the dozens of rabbits that hopped and pooped on the plastic turf.) Things took a macabre turn, and the friends had a falling out. Most of Johnny’s one-time friends, it seems, have had legal battles and other entanglements with him, and he presents his side of the story with a memorable flair.

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