Jake Gyllenhaal,
Swoosie Kurtz,
Marley Shelton,
Danny Trejo,
John Carroll Lynch
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Jake Gyllenhaal, the young star of the critically well-received October Sky (1999), follows up that film with this offbeat comedy. Gyllenhaal stars as Jimmy Livingston, a teenager with an immune syste... read more
Directed by: Blair Hayes (II), Blair Hayes
Release Date: August 24, 2001
Keywords:
funny,
jake gyllenhaal,
five hundred,
bubble boy,
plastic bubble,
Jake Gyllenhaal ,
Donnie Darko ,
Bubble Boy ,
Swoosie Kurtz
DVD Release Date: January 15, 2002
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June 5, 2011Life is an adventure. Don't blow it.
Cool good movie! This movie was as good as it was funny, perfect balance. It's kinda short but it's enough to be a blast. The story is very good and fun and you can't help but laugh at the different parts of Bubble Boy's journey. Great family... read more -
October 17, 2010Jake Gyllenhaal as a comedic superstar. This is a really funny movie, but it's also got a really good message about living life and taking risks. While it's sort've a spoof of Boy in the Plastic Bubble, it's very much its own movie with a slightly similar concept. The nutjob char... read more
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April 2, 2010I think this comedy film is awesome with a delightfully goofy plot.
The entire cast gives hilarious performances from Swoosie Kurtz in an outrageous psycho-mother performance. Jake Gyllenhaal is very funny as the wide-eyed innocent goes on the adventurous journey with the bubble... read more -
January 14, 2010fb733768972I laughed very hard! This is an awesome movie!
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October 29, 2009First of all Jake Gyllenhaal needs to bow his head in shame at this one, his only saving grace perhaps is if this was the first film he ever starred in, he is much more worthy than this film. As for the film itself I found far too many film comparisons to describe it as unusal a... read more
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September 14, 2009Little over a year ago, on a typically hot, steamy summer day, I recall seeing the previews to what looked to be a hilarious movie called "Bubble Boy". I knew right away that whether I would see it at the theater or would wait for it on cable, that I had to see it one day in the ... read more
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Critic Reviews
January 6, 2002
Dan Via, Washington Post
August 31, 2001
Kirk Honeycutt, Hollywood Reporter
Seldom has a more misguided movie escaped from a major studio than Touchstone's Bubble Boy.
August 31, 2001
Michael Wilmington, Chicago Tribune
This amazingly tasteless, gross-out comedy is full of cruel jokes, stupid characters, schmaltzy sentimentality and situations that make no sense.
August 28, 2001
Nick Rutigliano, Village Voice
Hollywood monstrosities all, and boy are they scary! Full Review
August 27, 2001
Bruce Fretts, Entertainment Weekly
After enduring only a few minutes of this shrill debacle, you'll feel more trapped in the theater than Jimmy is by his bubble. Full Review
August 24, 2001
Stephen Hunter, Washington Post
Certainly the meanest-spirited film ever associated with the Disney hallmark.
August 24, 2001
Edward Guthmann, San Francisco Chronicle
It's impossible not to respond to Gyllenhaal's sweetness, wide eyes and dazzling smile, or to imagine anyone whose looks or personality would be more perfectly suited to the role. Full Review
August 24, 2001
Jan Stuart, Newsday
Another smart-alecky road comedy with something to offend half the population. Full Review
August 24, 2001
Jonathan Foreman, New York Post
While this critic generally likes it when comedies trample on p.c. pieties, Bubble Boy crosses way over the line.
August 24, 2001
Rick Groen, Globe and Mail
It's got a brain that occasionally works, a ticker that sometimes pulses, and a nose intermittently keen to the whiff of hypocrisy. Full Review
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