QWhat is 'Bunny Lake is Missing' about?
AAnn Lake (Carol Lynley), a single mother recently moved from Boston to London where her newspaper reporter brother Steven (Keir Dullea) lives, drops off her four-year old daughter Bunny for her first day at her new school, 'The Little People's Garden. When she returns to pick up Bunny, however, the school has no record of Bunny being registered or being there at all. Even the police can find no evidence that Bunny ever existed, and everyone begins to suspect that Bunny is a figment of Ann's imagination. Only Steven seems convinced that the school administrators know more than what they are telling.
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QHow closely does the movie follow the novel?
AThose who have both read the book and seen the movie report that the two are almost entirely different stories. Yes, there is an Ann Lake (her name is Blanche in the book), and her daughter Bunny goes missing from day care, but that's where the similarities end. For starters, Blanche doesn't have a brother by any name. There is a young man who is infatuated with Blanche, and he becomes one of the prime suspects. There is a teacher who was dismissed from the day care center due to her inappropriate teaching practices; she also becomes suspect. Finally, Blanche lives with her mother, who highly disapproves of Blanche being an unwed mother and actually wants her to give Bunny away.
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