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Bubble Boy

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Bubble Boy
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PG13,1hr 24min
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August 24, 2001
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Touchstone Pictures
Synopsis: 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. ... Full Synopsis
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Bubble Boy simply has the gall to make light of one of the last untouchable left in America: disease. Full Review
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Featured Cast
Jimmy Livingston
Mrs. Livingston
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