Bubble Boy

Jake Gyllenhaal stars in this slapstick comedy as an immunodeficient teen who has spent his entire life in a hermetically sealed environment, but somehow manages a cross-country trip in an effort to stop the wedding of the neighbor he’s always loved. Swoosie Kurtz, Marley Shelton, Danny Trejo, Verne Troyer, Dave Sheridan, Fabio., An immunodeficient lad living in a hermetically sealed environment hits the road to try to stop the wedding of his beloved next-door neighbour., A young man living in a bubble in his room decides to travel to the outside world in order to stop the girl of his dreams from getting married., Jimmy Livingstone has lived in his own bubble since birth. For 17 years, his mum has kept him indoors, locked inside his plastic sphere. But when he falls for girl-next-door Chlöe, he realises he has to see the world. Offbeat comedy with a good heart., 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 system deficiency who has spent his entire life living in a plastic bubble under the doting, overprotective care of his mother (Swoosie Kurtz). Jimmy is in love with his next-door neighbor Chloe (Marley Shelton), so when he learns that she has left for Niagara Falls in order to be married, he’s devastated. He quickly assembles a portable “bubble suit” and sets out on a 2,755.8-mile odyssey in order to stop her and proclaim his affection. Along the way, Jimmy experiences a number of adventures, including encounters with freaks, bikers, rock stars, and a cult. Bubble Boy is a comic riff on the classic TV movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976), which starred a young John Travolta., Offbeat comedy in which a boy who was born without an immune system, and who has therefore been confined to his house in a special plastic sphere, must venture into the outside world if he is to win the affections of a girl who is soon to be married.