The House Bunny (2008) on Netflix
Shelley Darlingson is turned out of the Playboy Mansion on her 27th birthday. She becomes house mother to the Zeta Alpha Zeta sorority, which needs thirty pledges or loses its house.
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- Rotten Tomatoes43%
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Plot summary
Shelley Darlingson grew up in an orphanage and has been happy living at the Playboy Mansion as a Bunny and aspiring Playmate. A note arrives the morning after her 27th birthday, asking her to pack and leave, and with nowhere to go she searches for a new home. She tries the Phi Iota Mu house but is not a student there, and the house mothers will not have her. At Zeta Alpha Zeta she meets seven dowdy, socially awkward members whose sorority will be shut down unless thirty new pledges join. Once they see how easily she draws boys, they take her in as house mother, hoping her lessons in makeup and men can save the house. Shelley also meets Oliver, an altruistic young man who manages a retirement home.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about The House Bunny (2008)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Anna Faris first pitched The House Bunny to writers Karen McCullah and Kirsten Smith as a much darker story about a Playboy model who returns to the Midwest and falls into drug addiction, before it was reworked into a sorority comedy.
- Adam Sandler's Happy Madison Productions had never made a woman-centered film before; after hearing Anna Faris's pitch, Sandler signed on, making The House Bunny the company's first female-driven movie.
