Bubble Boy

Description

From the producer of the outrageous AUSTIN POWERS: THE SPY
WHO SHAGGED ME, BUBBLE BOY is the hilarious, laugh-out-loud comedy about a
sheltered young man (Jake Gyllenhaal — OCTOBER SKY) who breaks all the rules
on a wild adventure to get the girl of his dreams! Though he’s lived his
entire life within the confines of a protective plastic bubble and under the
ever-watchful eye of his overprotective mother (Swoosie Kurtz — GET OVER IT),
Jimmy Livingston (Gyllenhaal) never thought that he’d missed out on anything,
until the girl next door (Marley Shelton — VALENTINE, SUGAR & SPICE) ran off
to get married in Niagara Falls. With the wedding only days away, Jimmy has no
choice but to build a mobile “bubble suit” and set off across the country to
stop the wedding and confess his love to her! Innocuous, innocent,
and somewhat idiotic, Disney’s bubbleheaded road-movie comedy plays as a
farcical remake of the 1976 cult TV-movie melodrama The Boy in the Plastic
Bubble. Jake Gyllenhaal is the goodhearted innocent raised in a sort of human
Habitrail of plastic rooms and rubber tunnels. To win back the girl of his
dreams (Marley Shelton), he steps out of his indoor greenhouse and into a
homemade Ziplock bubble suit. It’s the usual story: naive innocent bounces
down the highway like a beach ball with legs and wins over the wacky
supporting cast of soft-hearted bikers, zombielike teenage cultists, and
orphaned “freaks” through purity and pluck. The premise wears thin after a
while, but Gyllenhaal keeps the film bounding along with goofy innocence and
energetic eagerness. Swoosie Kurtz costars as his religious-zealot clinging
mom. Watch for Fabio in an inspired cameo. –Sean Axmaker

Features:

Product Details:

• Genre: ACTION, Comedy, LIVE
• Format: NTSC, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, Subtitled
• Contributor: Fabio, Ever Carradine, John Carroll Lynch, Beetlejuice, Swoosie Kurtz, Stephen Spinella, Verne Troyer, Blair Hayes, Ken Daurio, Ping Wu, Marley Shelton, Cinco Paul, Dave Sheridan, Danny Trejo, Geoffrey Arend, Jake Gyllenhaal, Patrick Cranshaw, Brian George See more
• Language: English
• Runtime: 1 hour and 24 minutes
• Aspect Ratio ‏ : ‎ 2.35:1
• Is Discontinued By Manufacturer ‏ : ‎ No
• MPAA rating ‏ : ‎ PG-13 (Parents Strongly Cautioned)
• Product Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7.75 x 5.5 x 0.5 inches; 0.01 Ounces
• Item model number ‏ : ‎
• Director ‏ : ‎ Blair Hayes
• Media Format ‏ : ‎ NTSC, Multiple Formats, Closed-captioned, Color, Widescreen, Subtitled
• Run time ‏ : ‎ 1 hour and 24 minutes
• Release date ‏ : ‎ January 15, 2002
• Actors ‏ : ‎ Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, John Carroll Lynch