Bunny’s birthday is not going well.

His wife, Bobbie, wants to celebrate, and his best friend Dino eagerly pushes Bunny to open his present, but there’s trouble at his East Village apartment building – including two dead bodies, one of which gets crammed into a suitcase – as Bunny deals with unexpected visitors and his neighbors’ endless requests for his help.

In the hands of Quentin Tarantino or “After Hours”-era Martin Scorsese, “Bunny” would offer a dark, albeit comic, view of humanity; if “Bunny” were a Sean Baker film, it would be an empathic look at life on the margins. • “Bunny” director Ben Jacobson and the film’s star Mo Stark, who are real-life best friends, co-wrote the antic comedy with Stefan Marolachakis. They were photographed in the East Village building where the film

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