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Bad Boy Bubby

Italy, Australia

1993

114 Min
Color
2.35:1
English
  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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DIR Rolf de Heer

PROD Rolf de Heer, Giorgio Draskovic, Domenico Procacci

SCR Rolf de Heer

DP Ian Jones

CAST Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Carmel Johnson, Syd Brisbane

ED Suresh Ayyar

MUSIC Graham Tardif

Venice (Competition): Special Jury Prize, Stockholm (Competition), AFI FEST

Synopsis

Bad Boy Bubby is just that: a bad boy. So bad, in fact, that his mother has kept him locked in their house for his entire thirty years, convincing him that the air outside is poisonous. After a visit from his estranged father, circumstances force Bubby into the waiting world, a place which is just as unusual to him as he is to the world. –IMDb

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Rolf de Heer

Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951 in Heemskerk, North Holland) is a Dutch film director, writer and producer living in Australia. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and is based in Adelaide. De Heer primarily makes alternative or arthouse films. According to the jacket notes of the videotape, de Heer holds the honor of co-producing and directing the only motion picture, Dingo, in which the jazz legend Miles Davis appears as an actor. Miles Davis collaborated with Michel Legrand on the score. He is the subject of the book “Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer” (Saarbrücken: VDM, 2009) by D. Bruno Starrs. —Wikipedia 

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Sfantul Sfincter

15Apr13

"Normality" comes so easy for some people while they are so oblivious to the privileges that build up their comfortable condition. Lacking any form of privilege throughout existence turned Bubby into a mentally misshapen lunatic who despite his severe impairments and hotchpotch means of interacting, still holds a sane perception of what happens around him without having any fundamental social dogma to rely upon.

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João Rosa

27Feb13

chato e nojento.

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Maria Poenaru

10Nov12

I don't think harming a real cat did any favors to the movie. I stopped watching it because i could not bear seeing torture for the "sake" of "art". There is too much torture happening in the world, the director should have stuck to incest.

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Bad Boy Bubby

By Damian on May 13, 2013

I remember seeing the trailer of Bad Boy Bubby when I was around 13 (when it came out) and being completely gobsmacked. It didnt look like anything else. It has nearly everything a teenage boy would…  read review

Madness in 'Bad Boy Bubby'

By ConallV​ision on April 15, 2011

Here is an essay I wrote for college in which I had to discuss madness in a particular film or work of art and I chose ‘Bad Boy Bubby’. I don’t believe that madness is the main theme of the film, but…  read review

A breakdown of social construct

By Ratocx on March 3, 2011

Somehow this film reminds me of Dogtooth (2009) as both films are about parents hiding the real world from their child. The difference however is that Bad Boy Bobby seems to go deeper in how the breakdown…  read review

Bad Boy Bubby

By Gino on June 24, 2010

Seeing Bad Boy Bubby really made me realize how good so many of us have it, and how much worse off I could be. Bubby is a demented Character that comes from the dark, dingy corners of only someone’s…  read review

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