Series Special Presentation

The Death of Bunny Munro

Episodes 1 and 2

Isabella Eklöf brings her customary fearlessness, while Matt Smith swaggers and sparkles as the titular lothario in this no-holds-barred, small-screen adaptation of Nick Cave’s acclaimed novel.

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Credits

  • Screenwriter

    Pete Jackson

  • Director

    Isabella Eklöf

  • With

    Matt Smith, Rafael Mathé, Sarah Greene

  • UK 2025. 76min

  • Courtesy of

    Sky and Clerkenwell Films

  • Language

    English

Introduction

Following his wife’s suicide, sex-addicted cosmetics salesman Bunny Munro escapes, with his nine-year-old son, on a chaotic road trip across southern England. Eklöf and writer Pete Jackson burnish Cave’s vivid prose with a grubby lustre, serving a hallucinatory smorgasbord of sex, drugs and downright bad behaviour, while exploring human frailty and the indispensability of love.

Sarah Lutton

Content warning

Contains scenes of drug use, nudity, sex, and suicide.

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