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Nothing Goes Right Parents and Children Family Relations Goofy Hero Obsessive Quest Self Discovery Teenage Life Weddings more...
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Comedy Romance
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Contemporary
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Bubble Boy, 2001

Starring: Jake Gyllenhaal, Marley Shelton

Directed by: Blair Hayes

Written by: Cinco Paul

Language: English

Country: USA

Runtime: 84 min

MPAA Rating:

Rating:5.4

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The mood of Bubble Boy is humorous, offbeat, and witty. The plot centers around a situation where nothing goes right, parents and children, and family relations. It features farce and silly humor. Bubble Boy is a comedy and romance movie. Stylistically, it has a road movie structure. It happens in contemporary times. Bubble Boy is especially suggested for a date night and teens.

Summary of Bubble Boy

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.