BUBBLE BOY is a zany and lighthearted but irreverent road comedy from music video director Blair Hayes. Jake Gyllenhaal (OCTOBER SKY) stars as Jimmy Livingston, a young man born with an immune deficiency, who is forced to spend his life inside a sterile plastic bubble. His overprotective, fanatical right-wing Christian mother (Swoosie Kurtz) doesn't let him have friends, and the only TV show she lets him watch is LAND OF THE LOST. The pretty girl next door, Chloe (Marley Shelton) visits him, and the two become friends. Because they can't touch each other through his bubble, they keep their passions in check, but when Chloe goes to Niagara Falls to marry her creepy boyfriend, Jimmy builds a portable bubble and leaves home for the first time to stop her. BUBBLE BOY may offend some with its jokes involving religion and sex and physical deformity, but it's clear that the filmmakers push the envelope, not simply to shock, but to make cogent points about tolerance. The film features surprisingly strong and funny supporting performances from Vern Troyer (Mini-Me from AUSTIN POWERS) and Fabio. In the lead role, Gyllenhaal projects such genuine wide-eyed sweetness that it's impossible not to root for him.

Theatrical release: August 24, 2001.

DVD Features:

Region 1
Keep Case
Anamorphic Widescreen - 2.35:1
Audio:
Dolby Digital 5.1 - English
Additional Release Material:
Audio Commentary
Featurette
Interactive Features:
Scene Access
Interactive Menus

Distributor Notes: Bubble Boy

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!

Source: Buena Vista Home Entertainment

Jake Gyllenhaal: Actor
Marley Shelton: Supporting Actress/1990s
Swoosie Kurtz: American Actress
Geoffrey Arend: Star, BUBBLE BOY (2001)
 Beetlejuice: Actor, BUBBLE BOY (2001)
Betty Blowtorch: Actress, BUBBLE BOY (2001)
John Carroll Lynch: 
Dave Sheridan: actor, SCARY MOVIE
Stephen Spinella: Actor/"Tarantella"
Danny Trejo: American actor,
Verne Troyer: American Actor, "Mini-Me" of AUSTIN POWERS

Blair Hayes: Director, BUBBLE BOY (2001)

Cinco Paul: Screenwriter, BUBBLE BOY (2001)
Ken Daurio: Screenwriter, BUBBLE BOY (2001)

"...BUBBLE BOY is an updating of PEE WEE'S BIG ADVENTURE with a bit of THE GRADUATE thrown in....[Featuring] some rambunctiously funny set pieces that are like nothing else you'll see this summer....The picture should shock you into laughter..."
"...Goofy fun....Gyllenhaal plays Jimmy with a wide-eyed sweetness..."