Bubble Boy (film)

• Jake Gyllenhaal: Jimmy Livingston
• Swoosie Kurtz: Mrs. Livingston
• Marley Shelton: Chloe
• Danny Trejo: Slim
• John Carroll Lynch: Mr. Livingston
• Verne Troyer: Dr. Phreak
• Dave Sheridan: Mark
• Fabio Lanzoni: Gil

Bubble Boy (alternatively: Bubble Boy - Life behind plastic) is an American comedy film directed by Blair Hayes from the year 2001.

Action

The 17 -year-old Jimmy Livingston suffers from an immune deficiency, so he must be living in a room, surrounded by a sterile plastic bag spend. His strong religious mother controlled his life.

As a child, Jimmy befriends the new neighbor Chloe. Chloe says one day she would soon marry at Niagara Falls Mark. Jimmy holds the man for a complete idiot. The disappointed Jimmy throws Chloe out of the house and grabs later from a gift that suggests that Chloe loves him. He decides to Chloe in a big transparent plastic ball (or even bladder), which continues to protect him, nachzureisen to stop the wedding and Chloe to confess his affection.

Jimmy expects a veritable odyssey - yet he learns on the way to Niagara Falls know many people, including the US-led Slim biker gang, a bus full of crazed cult members, freed freaks from a freak show and an Indian ice cream vendor. He finally appears, despite the odds, in time and prevents the wedding.

It turns out that Jimmy's illness only lasted up to the age of four, but his mother hid this in order to continue to control it can.

Background

The film was in California and Nevada - including Los Angeles and Las Vegas - rotated. His cost of production was estimated at 13 million U.S. dollars. The film played in theaters in the USA for about 5 million U.S. dollars.

In Germany the film is only available as an import DVD with original, although there is a German dubbed version. Thus, the film was repeatedly aired on ProSieben, RTL 2 and the ORF in German translation.

Reviews

Michael Wilmington in the Chicago Tribune wrote that the film was " amazingly tasteless "; full of " cruel jokes ", " stupid characters ", " schmaltzy sentimentality " and " senseless situations ."

The lexicon of the International film wrote that the film was a " sentimental comedy" that instrumentalisiere a serious illness "for their entertainment purposes."