Bubble Boy is a 2001 adventure-comedy film directed by Blair Hayes and written by Cinco Paul an Ken Daurio, inspired by the 1976 TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. The film stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a young man without an immune system who escapes his conservative parents to stop a wedding.
Synopsis[]
Jimmy Livingston is a young man who was born without an immune system and has lived in a bubble most of his life with his strictly conservative parents. He meets Chloe, the girl of his dreams, but she is destined to marry someone else. Jimmy decides to finally break free from his parents by crafting a bubble suit and escapes out into the world, encountering a variety of unusual characters and learning what it truly means to be free.
Cast[]
- Jake Gyllenhaal as Jimmy Livingston
- Swoosie Kurtz as Mrs. Livingston / Wildfire
- Marley Shelton as Chloe
- Danny Trejo as Slim
- John Carroll Lynch as Morton Livingston
- Verne Troyer as Dr. Phreak
- Dave Sheridan as Mark
- Brian George as Pushpop
- Patrick Cranshaw as Pappy and Pippy
- Ever Carradine as Lisa
- Beetlejuice as Lil' Zip
- Fabio Lanzoni as Gil
- Zach Galifianakis as Bus stop man
- Arden Myrin as Lorraine
- Pablo Schreiber as Todd
- Matthew McGrory as Human Sasquatch / Clark
- Stacy Keibler as Working girl
- Madajah McCullum O'Hearn as Red Hot
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Musical[]
The film was adapted into a musical by the film's original writers in 2013. Contrary to the film, the musical received positive reviews.