"Hard on the heels of the airless misery of Mark Ruffalo's new venture, Task, comes Jude Law and Jason Bateman's Black Rabbit, which has a bit more action but the same relentless, cheerless tone and even less forgiving lighting. One more entry and it's officially a trend! We'll all have to schedule recovery viewings of Brooklyn Nine-Nine, like winter vitamin D shots, to make it through unbowed."
"Law and Bateman are working-class brothers Jake (Law) and Vince (Bateman) Friedkin from Coney Island. They grew up in what we assume from relatively early on was a violent home, dominated by an alcoholic father. They became a Nirvana-lite rock group Jake the handsome lead, Vince the drummer and creative force until the latter's taste for drugs and mayhem put paid to their success."
Black Rabbit follows Jake and Vince Friedkin, working-class brothers from Coney Island whose violent upbringing and an alcoholic father shaped their lives. They briefly find success as a Nirvana-lite band before Vince's drug-fueled self-destruction ends it. Jake becomes a manager and later a co-owner of the Black Rabbit, a three-storey bohemian restaurant that becomes fashionable. The series opens with a celebratory trunk show interrupted by armed robbers, then flashes back a month to Vince in Reno after an accidental killing and relapse. The tone remains relentlessly bleak, with oppressive lighting and dislocating details.
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