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31% Tomatometer 84 Reviews 48% Audience Score 100,000+ Ratings 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 misguided mother (Swoosie Kurtz). But when he realizes that he's in love with Chloe (Marley Shelton), the girl next door, he has no choice but to build a mobile bubble suit, and set off across the country to Niagara Falls, to stop Chloe's wedding -- which is only seven days away -- in time to confess his love. Read More Read Less Watch on Fandango at Home Buy Now

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Bubble Boy bounces along with lame, offensive jokes that are more tasteless than funny.

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Bubble Boy | Rotten Tomatoes (1) Kimberley Jones Austin Chronicle Rated: 3.5/5 Mar 10, 2003 Full Review Bubble Boy | Rotten Tomatoes (2) Dan Via Washington Post Hayes shows a deft touch with both cartoony slapstick and character-based comedy and manages to create moments of real poignancy in between. Jan 6, 2002 Full Review Bubble Boy | Rotten Tomatoes (3) Tim Cogshell Boxoffice Magazine The road trip aspect of Bubble Boy provides fodder for most of the jokes, which are requisitely crude and tactless and only occasionally amusing. Sep 4, 2001 Full Review Bubble Boy | Rotten Tomatoes (4) Debbie Lynn Elias Behind The Lens Sweet, charming, surprising, inspirational and funny. Bubble Boy is pure Disney gold. Nov 7, 2019 Full Review Bubble Boy | Rotten Tomatoes (5) Felix Vasquez Jr. Cinema Crazed A fun and oddly entertaining twist on the road trip film. Apr 29, 2009 Full Review Bubble Boy | Rotten Tomatoes (6) Guylaine Cadorette Hollywood.com Rated: 1/5 Nov 20, 2008 Full Review Read all reviews

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gandano so dumb it's funny!! Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 03/29/24 Full Review Lumina E Legendary movie. One for the books. 5 stars isn't enough. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 02/16/24 Full Review Sean D Not amazing, but definitely a tad underrated.I remember I happened to come accross this just by chance one night, and I really enjoyed it.Then a few months later I was staying at my auntys and her freind had borrowed her a few of his dvds for me to watch. And one was donnie darko, looking at the films I saw the bubble boy guy there ! So I watched it specifically for him really, and was absolutely blown away by him in that.Ever since he has been one of my favourite actors. And I still rewatch these two every so often. Which I don't do with to many films Rated 4/5 Stars • Rated 4 out of 5 stars 02/02/24 Full Review Mariah W It's a dorky, funny, romantic, hilarious, super entertaining movie! Absolutely love it!! Rated 3.5/5 Stars • Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 12/31/23 Full Review Ashlyn D Cute movie Kinda played out like a Disney movie but still really cute. Rated 5/5 Stars • Rated 5 out of 5 stars 08/18/23 Full Review StephenPaul C The least funny 01 hour: and 24 minutes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Rated 0.5/5 Stars • Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 04/17/23 Full Review Read all reviews

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Blair Hayes Director Jake Gyllenhaal Jimmy Livingston Swoosie Kurtz Mrs. Livingston Marley Shelton Chloe Danny Trejo Slim John Carroll Lynch Mr. Livingston
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Synopsis 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 misguided mother (Swoosie Kurtz). But when he realizes that he's in love with Chloe (Marley Shelton), the girl next door, he has no choice but to build a mobile bubble suit, and set off across the country to Niagara Falls, to stop Chloe's wedding -- which is only seven days away -- in time to confess his love.

Director
Blair Hayes

Producer
Beau Flynn

Screenwriter
Cinco Paul, Ken Daurio

Distributor
Touchstone Pictures

Production Co
Germ Free Productions

Rating
PG-13 (Language|Crude Sexual Humor)

Genre
Comedy

Original Language
English

Release Date (Theaters)
Aug 24, 2001, Wide

Release Date (Streaming)
Jan 1, 2014

Box Office (Gross USA)
$5.0M

Runtime
1h 24m

Sound Mix
Dolby SR, DTS, Dolby Stereo, Surround, SDDS, Dolby A, Dolby Digital

Aspect Ratio
Flat (1.85:1)
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