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  2. You may have seen the 1976 movie called The Boy In The Plastic Bubble starring John Travolta, or the 2001 film Bubble Boy starring Jake Gyllenhaal. But you may not know that both of these movies are based on the true story of David Vetter.

  3. When David Vetter was born in 1971 with a severe disease, an experiment to keep him alive made him famous. But ...

  4. Jul 23, 2006 · And remember when George Costanza ripped an obnoxious bubble boy’s protective casing on Seinfeld? These references are recognizable and humorous, but the true-life story and ethical questions surrounding the case of David Vetter―the boy who actually lived inside a bubble―are not widely known, and not at all funny. I knew nothing about ...

  5. Aug 24, 2001 · In Hayes's version, the true pathology in Jimmy's life isn't the genetic difficulty that is his fate but his nasty parents.

  6. The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is Very Loosely Based on a True Story (see Real Life). It became the Trope Codifier and the inspiration for most of the works which employ or parody the trope. The title character of Bubble Boy.

  7. The real “Bubble Boy” on whom the film was based was David Vetter from Texas. He was born in 1971 with a severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID) and was forced to live in a completely...

  8. Mar 26, 2014 · March 26, 2014. David Vetter’s birth and short life in Houston captured the world’s attention, a baby boy whisked immediately into an “isolator” designed to keep him separated from a germ-filled word that posed unthinkable dangers to a child born without a functioning immune system.

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