Bubble (2006) on Netflix
Martha looks after her father and drives Kyle, a younger co-worker, between shifts at a doll factory and a shovel factory. She calls him her best friend. Then the factory hires Rose.
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Plot summary
Martha is a middle-aged single woman in a poor rust belt town in Ohio. She looks after her disabled father and drives a younger co-worker, Kyle, to the doll factory where they both work and to a second shift across the Ohio River in West Virginia, at a factory that makes shovels. Kyle has social anxiety and lives with his single mother, who watches television constantly. Martha has no friends or social outlets outside of work, and she tells Kyle he is her best friend, though he is less interested in her than she is in him. The factory hires Rose, a young single mother of a toddler, to meet demand, and she and Kyle are drawn to each other, leaving Martha on the outside. Martha agrees to drive Rose to her housekeeping job for a wealthy client.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bubble (2006)
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- Bubble was the first feature by an Oscar-winning director to be released day-and-date in movie theaters and on the cable/satellite network HDNet Movies, with a DVD release just a few days after.
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Soderbergh shot an ending in which a doctor tells Martha a CAT scan found a severely malignant tumor that could explain her blackouts and abnormal behavior, but test audiences rejected the scene and it was left out of the final cut, appearing only as a DVD deleted scene.- Some theater owners refused to screen Bubble in protest of its day-and-date theatrical and cable release, fearing that a move toward on-demand home viewing would hurt the moviegoing industry.
- Casting director Carmen Cuba cast Debbie Doebereiner after seeing her work the drive-through window at a Parkersburg KFC, one of the nonprofessional actors the team found while scouting the area.
- While researching Midwestern factories, screenwriter Coleman Hough learned of a doll-parts factory in Belpre, Ohio, which Soderbergh called one of the last three in the US, the rest having moved to China.
- To cut down on blocking work, and the demands placed on the actors, the director often had them seated or in relatively static poses.
