Fresh
Hayes shows a deft touch with both cartoony slapstick and character-based comedy and manages to create moments of real poignancy in between.
Dan Via, Washington Post
Bubble Boy
Life is an adventure. Don't blow it.
2001 · 1h 24m · PG-13
Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Directed by
Blair Hayes
Overview
Jimmy is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy – bubble suit and all – treks cross-country to stop her.
Director and cast
- Blair Hayes Director
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Jimmy Livingston
- Swoosie Kurtz as Mrs. Livingston
- Marley Shelton as Chloe
- Danny Trejo as Slim
- John Carroll Lynch as Mr. Livingston
- Verne Troyer as Dr. Phreak
- Dave Sheridan as Mark
- Brian George as Pushpop
- Patrick Cranshaw as Pappy / Pippy
- Stephen Spinella as Chicken Man
Critics on Rotten Tomatoes
Top critics, in their words
31%
Tomatometer
Rotten
Seldom has a more misguided movie escaped from a major studio than Touchstone's Bubble Boy.
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Rotten
This amazingly tasteless, gross-out comedy is full of cruel jokes, stupid characters, schmaltzy sentimentality and situations that make no sense.
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
Rotten
Hollywood monstrosities all, and boy are they scary!
Nick Rutigliano, Village Voice
Rotten
After enduring only a few minutes of this shrill debacle, you'll feel more trapped in the theater than Jimmy is by his bubble.
Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly
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