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Plot summary
In a small town, Elwood P. Dowd spends his time taking his best friend Harvey, a six-foot white rabbit, to bars and introducing him to strangers. Harvey is a púca out of Celtic mythology, benign but mischievous, and almost nobody can see him. Veta, Elwood's sister, and Myrtle Mae, his niece, share his large estate, and his habit has turned the three of them into social outcasts. After Elwood ruins a party the two women arranged in secret, Veta has him taken to a local sanatorium to be committed. There the attending psychiatrist, Dr. Sanderson, listens to Veta's account of life with Elwood, who is forever on the point of introducing his friend to whoever is in the room.
Cast
- Grayce Millsas Mrs. Ethel Chauvenet
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Harvey (1950)
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- John Green gave the film an episode of his podcast The Anthropocene Reviewed and an essay in his 2021 book of the same name, describing a severe clinical depression that led him to resign; his boss told him "Watch Harvey", and he writes that it helped him get well and return to his job at Booklist magazine.
- Despite the popular belief that the giant rabbit in Donnie Darko was a reference to Harvey, that film's writer and director Richard Kelly denied it, telling Future Movies: "I have never even seen the movie, it never occurred to me.
