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Plot summary
Jimmy Livingston came into the world without an immune system, so he lives sealed inside a sterilized dome in his bedroom in California, where the neighbors call him Bubble Boy. His overbearing mother, a devout Christian, allows him only Highlights magazine and Land of the Lost. As a teenager he becomes friends with Chloe, the girl who moves in next door, though his mother discourages the friendship. When Chloe says she is leaving for Niagara Falls in three days to marry Mark, who has always ridiculed Jimmy, Jimmy builds a mobile bubble suit and slips away to stop the wedding.
Cast
Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Bubble Boy (2001)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Bubble Boy was a box office failure when it opened on August 24, 2001, but from its home video release onward, and later through television airings and digital streaming, it became a "cult comedy classic".
- Writers Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio adapted Bubble Boy into a stage musical in 2008, and a professional production started in 2013 led to an original cast recording on Ghostlight Records in 2017 featuring A.J. Holmes, Alice Ripley and Richard Kind.
- The comedy was the center of a brief controversy for downplaying the effects of severe combined immunodeficiency, the real condition behind its premise, for the purposes of comedy.
