Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) poster
1972 · comedy · satire · corporate

Get to Know Your Rabbit

Directed by Brian De Palma1h 31m1972
ElsewhereIMDb5.21kRT50%TMDB5.023
  • brisk
  • inventive
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Warm, kinetic, measured comedy / satire, inventive in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured, hand-scored across twelve axes of taste.

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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?

Our read · Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972) reads as a warm, kinetic, inventive comedy · satire · corporate entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook. Hand-scored on twelve axes of taste — mood, pacing, weirdness, hope, stakes, humour, reality, density, warmth, auteur, intensity, and era — with a derived palette drawn from its dominant cinematography.

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You want quirky 70s absurdist comedy about ditching corporate life for magic.

ends warmyou’ll be fine aftersteady all the waygrips by minute 12attention 2/5breezes by
Date nightWith friendsSoloWith parentsKids around

Skip it tonightYou want tight plotting or polished satire without meandering.

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Each axis is hand-scored — not derived from votes or genre averages. The marker shows where this film sits; the gradient fill uses the film's own cinematography palette.

Mood · HeavyCosy
Pacing · Slow-burnKinetic
Intensity · GentleExtreme
Weirdness · ConventionalSurreal
Hope · NihilisticRedemptive
Stakes · IntimateEpic
Humour · NoneBroad
Reality · GroundedFantastical
Density · SparseTwisty
Warmth · ColdTender
Auteur · TransparentSignature
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