Bubble boy
| Movie | |
|---|---|
| German title | Bubble boy |
| Original title | Bubble boy |
| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 2001 |
| length | 84 minutes |
| Age rating | FSK 0 |
| Rod | |
| Director | Blair Hayes |
| script |
Ken Daurio , Cinco Paul |
| production |
Beau Flynn , Eric McLeod |
| music | John Ottman |
| camera | Jerzy Zieliński |
| cut | Pamela Martin |
| occupation | |
| |
Bubble Boy (Alternate title: Bubble Boy - life behind plastic ) is an American film comedy by Blair Hayes from the year 2001 .
action
The 17-year-old Jimmy Livingston suffers from an immunodeficiency , which is why he has to spend his life in a room surrounded by a sterile plastic cover. His strongly religious mother controls his life.
As a child, Jimmy befriends his new neighbor, Chloe. One day Chloe says she 'll be getting married to Mark in Niagara Falls soon . Jimmy thinks the man is a complete idiot. Disappointed Jimmy throws Chloe out of the house and only later unwraps a present that suggests Chloe loves him. He decides to travel to Chloe in a large transparent plastic ball (or bubble) that continues to protect him, to prevent the wedding and to confess his affection to Chloe.
Jimmy expects a real odyssey - on the way to Niagara Falls he meets numerous people, including the biker gang led by Slim, a bus full of crazy cult members, freed freaks from a freak show and an Indian ice cream seller. In the end, despite all the adversities, he still appears on time and prevents the wedding.
It turns out that Jimmy's illness only lasted until he was four, but his mother kept it a secret in order to keep him under control.
background
The film was shot in California and Nevada - including Los Angeles and Las Vegas . Its production cost was an estimated $ 13 million. The film grossed approximately $ 5 million in United States cinemas.
In Germany , the film is only available as an import DVD with the original sound, although there is a German dubbed version . In this, the film was broadcast several times on ProSieben , RTL II and ORF .
synchronization
| actor | role | German speaker |
|---|---|---|
| Jake Gyllenhaal | Jimmy Livingston | Kim Hasper |
| Swoosie Kurtz | Mrs. Livingston | Liane Rudolph |
| Marley Shelton | Chloe | Ranja Bonalana |
| Danny Trejo | Slim | Thomas Wolff |
| John Carroll Lynch | Mr. Livingston | Frank-Otto Schenk |
| Verne Troyer | Dr. Phreak | Michael Pan |
| Dave Sheridan | mark | Gerrit Schmidt-Foss |
| Fabio Lanzoni | Gil | |
| Ping Wu | Emcee | Eberhard Prüter |
| Brian George | Pushpop | Frank Schaff |
| Zach Galifianakis | Ticket seller | Detlef Bierstedt |
Reviews
Michael Wilmington wrote in the Chicago Tribune that the film was "startlingly tasteless"; full of "cruel gags", "stupid characters", "corny sentimentality" and "senseless situations".
The Lexicon of International Films wrote that the film was a "sentimental comedy" which instrumentalized a serious illness "for entertainment purposes".
See also
Web links
- Bubble Boy in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Bubble boy at rotten tomatoes (English)
- Bubble Boy at Metacritic (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Filming locations of Bubble Boy on imdb.com
- ↑ Box office from Bubble Boy on imdb.com
- ↑ Overview: Broadcasts and versions of Bubble Boy in the online film database
- ↑ German synchronous index: German synchronous index | Movies | Bubble Boy - life behind plastic. Retrieved July 12, 2018 .
- ↑ cf. rottentomatoes.com
- ↑ Bubble Boy. In: Lexicon of International Films . Film service , accessed March 2, 2017 .