Compared to something like Prince of Persia, though, it’s an eerily perceptive and oddly heartwarming weirdo treat. It’s no Brokeback Mountain, of course, nor is it on a par with a Zodiac or a Donnie.
Whatever the creative disappointments that occurred on set, you do wish that Gyllenhaal would be a little more proud of it today.
His initial vision was pretty much equal to Donnie Darko in its oddity.”
#The boy in the plastic bubble movie#
“The director, Blair Hayes, is a really beautiful, creative, open, loving artist, and that was a case of a studio coming in and telling him he had to make a movie a particular way, and he lost his vision. “It was a different script ,” Gyllenhaal told Elle magazine in 2015, during a rare moment of levity on the press tour for his weepy drama Demolition. Vetter became known as The Bubble Boy after he was placed in a germ-free plastic bubble that he lived in for 12 years. Gyllenhaal, otherwise ascending the Hollywood ladder, was likely glad to see the back of it. Travolta is endearing as the boy in the bubble. Bubble Boy would have also been long forgotten if not for his involvement – it opened at number 13 at the US box office in August 2001, and became one of the biggest flops of the year. The Boy in the Plastic Bubble ½ 1976 Well-made, sensitive drama about a young man born with immunity deficiencies who must grow up in a specially controlled plastic environment. But Gyllenhaal is also the most consistently likeable yet entirely un-fun actor of his generation, so it’s no real surprise. Gyllenhaal hasn’t spoken much of Bubble Boy, which has always had the reputation of being the rotten, decaying portrait in the attic when it comes to his two star-making roles in 2001.
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