Bubble Boy (2001)

Synopsis: BUBBLE 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... BUBBLE 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. [More]

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Marley Shelton, Swoosie Kurtz, Geoffrey Arend

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

Director: Blair Hayes

Director: Blair Hayes
Screenwriter: Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio
Studio: Touchstone Pictures

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