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Aug 24, 2001 · Bubble Boy: Directed by Blair Hayes. With Jake Gyllenhaal, Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo. Bubble Boy's been in a bubble all his life due to no immune system. A cute blonde girl befriends BB. Her boyfriend proposes and BB decides to travel across USA to Niagara Falls to stop the wedding.
- Blair Hayes
- 193
- 2 min
Bubble Boy is a 2001 American black comedy film directed by Blair Hayes, starring Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role. It was inspired by the 1976 movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. A musical by the same name was written by the same authors and first performed in 2008.
- $13 million
- John Ottman
- August 24, 2001
- Beau Flynn
Having to live inside a bubble all his life David Phillip Vetter (September 21, 1971 – February 22, 1984) [1] was an American boy with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), a hereditary disease which dramatically weakens the immune system .
- The bubble boy
- Lymphoma; complications from SCID, after an unsuccessful bone marrow transplant
- David Phillip Vetter, September 21, 1971, Houston, Texas, U.S.
- Conroe, Texas, U.S.
A coming-of-age comedy follows the life of Jimmy Livingston (Jake Gyllenhaal), a young man born without immunities and raised in a manufactured world provided by his well-intentioned, but ...
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- Blair Hayes
- PG-13
- Jake Gyllenhaal
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Synopsis. On his way to save his love from marrying the wrong man, BB (Bubble Boy) encounters adventures very rare for a young man in a bubble whose system could not tolerate even one germ: A bus load of cult members who boot him out of their bus when he accuses them of being a cult.
