Genre: Thriller
Director: Mark Pellington
Writer: Matt Parker
Based on the novel by Merriam Model
Cast: Natalie Portman, Dominic Cooper, Mark Strong, Melissa Leo, Jeremy Davies
Plot: Ann Lake (Natalie Portman) has left her abusive husband and moved to Philadelphia with her five-year-old daughter Felicia, who she calls Bunny. She chose Philadelphia in order to be near her journalist brother Steven (Dominic Cooper). Ann enrolls Bunny in a private school for kindergarten and leaves to go run some errands.
That afternoon, Ann returns to the school to pick Bunny up, but Bunny isn't there and nobody remembers even seeing her. Ann starts to interrogate the school secretary, who doesn't remember anything. Steven then arrives and further badgers the secretary.
Soon Detective Newhouse (Mark Strong) arrives to investigate the matter. He talks with all the parties involved, including: Ann's landlord, Horatio Wilson (Jeremy Davies), who lets himself into Ann's new apartment as he pleases to go through her underwear; and the school principal Ada Ford (Melissa Leo), who collects recordings of children having nightmares. Ada tells Newhouse that she thinks there is something unusual about Ann's brother. While being questioned, Steven asks hostile towards Newhouse, and threatens to create a public scandal unless the police hurry up and find Bunny.
Steven tells the police that all of Bunny's belongings were stolen in a mysterious burglary earlier that day. Ada Ford reports to Newhouse that they had not received a tuition check for Bunny Lake. Newhouse suggests that Ann Lake may be unwell and that Bunny may not exist, infuriating Steven, who goes on an angry rant, during which he mentions that Ann named Bunny after her childhood imaginary friend. This leads Newhouse to suspect that Ann's daughter Bunny, may just be her imaginary friend.
Ann sets out to find clues that her daughter really exists. She suddenly remembers that she had taken Bunny's favorite doll in to be repaired. She tells Steven that she's going to the doll store and sets off towards the store in a cab to get the doll back, hoping that it would be enough evidence to prove that Bunny exists. Ann arrives at the doll store, which is closed, but the back door is unlocked and Ann enters. Inside the store is the owner, who is surprised to see Ann. She explains that she needs the doll right away, and he finds it for her.
It turns out that Steven followed Ann to the store. Ann gives her brother the doll and goes back inside to pay the store owner. Once she's back inside, Steven sets fire to the doll. When Ann gets back outside and sees what Steven has done she is shocked. Steven then hits Ann with a tire iron, knocking her out. Steven then checks Ann into a hospital, claiming that she hit her head at home. Ann however manages to escape and hijacks a car in order to follow Steven.
She sees Steven stop, and retrieve Bunny from the trunk of his car. Seeing that Steven is about to kill Bunny, Ann runs up and distracts Steven by calling him 'Stevie' and attempting to engage him in games from their childhood.
Steven reveals to Ann that he feels that Bunny has been an intrusion upon their relationship. He wants to kill Bunny so that it will be just him and Ann like it was when they were kids. Bunny and Ann begin to run away from Steven. He chases after them along the road, when Newhouse arrives. He asks Steven to surrender, but Steven charges at him with a knife. Newhouse shoots Steven in the shoulder and arrests him. Newhouse had finally tracked down record of Bunny’s existence after contacting Ann’s ex-husband. Ann and Bunny watch as Steven is taken off in a police car, and Newhouse apologizes to Ann for not believing her.
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