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A boy who is born without a natural immune system lives his life inside a bubble in his bedroom. When he discovers that the love of his life is about to marry another man he builds a bubble suit and sets off to win his girl's heart in a journey full of mayhem...

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EAN5017188885041

eBay Product ID (ePID)3951633

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ActorMarley Shelton, Dave Sheridan, Betty Blowtorch, Danny Trejo, John Carroll Lynch, Jake Gyllenhaal, Stephen Spinella, Geoffrey Arend, Beetlejuice, Swoosie Kurtz, Verne Troyer

Film/TV TitleBubble Boy

DirectorBlair Hayes

FormatDVD

LanguageEnglish

FeaturesDocumentary - 1. BUILDING A BETTER BUBBLE SUITE\Audio Commentary - 1. Blaire Hayes - Director\Production Design Gallery\Storyboards

GenreGeneral, Comedy

Run Time84 Mins

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Certificate12A/12

Number of Discs1

Additional InformationBUBBLE BOY is a zany and lighthearted but irreverent road comedy from music video director Blair Hayes. Jake Gyllenhaal (OCTOBER SKY) stars as Jimmy Livingston, a young man born with an immune deficiency, who is forced to spend his life inside a sterile plastic bubble. His overprotective, fanatical right-wing Christian mother (Swoosie Kurtz) doesn't let him have friends, and the only TV show she lets him watch is LAND OF THE LOST. The pretty girl next door, Chloe (Marley Shelton) visits him, and the two become friends. Because they can't touch each other through his bubble, they keep their passions in check, but when Chloe goes to Niagara Falls to marry her creepy boyfriend, Jimmy builds a portable bubble and leaves home for the first time to stop her. BUBBLE BOY may offend some with its jokes involving religion and sex and physical deformity, but it's clear that the filmmakers push the envelope, not simply to shock, but to make cogent points about tolerance. The film features surprisingly strong and funny supporting performances from Vern Troyer (Mini-Me from AUSTIN POWERS) and Fabio. In the lead role, Gyllenhaal projects such genuine wide-eyed sweetness that it's impossible not to root for him.

ReviewsUSA Today - ...Goofy fun....Gyllenhaal plays Jimmy with a wide-eyed sweetness..., New York Times - ...BUBBLE BOY is an updating of PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE with a bit of THE GRADUATE thrown in....[Featuring] some rambunctiously funny set pieces that are like nothing else you'll see this summer....The picture should shock you into laughter...

ScreenwriterCinco Paul, Ken Daurio

Movie/TV TitleBubble Boy

Director of PhotographyJerzy Zielinski