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 Bad Boy Bubby - 1993 released (2005 DVD)

Smelly-Cat - One of the most disturbing cult classics Australia has produced. Bubby, a man kept lock away by his mother for over 30 years.

She tells Bubby that that the outside world is a poisonous environment and only feeds him basic foods of bread & milk. Bubby makes it out and a whole world of discovery awaits him.

Scenes of incest and murder. Bad Boy Bubby is not for the faint hearted.

Classic scenes like robbing a store with a dead cat, joining a rock band and having sex with a girl that is not his mother. Classic film.

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IMDb - 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.

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Michaels DVD - Confined to a two-room slum for his whole life, Bubby knows only of the existence of himself and his mother,

a religious freak who shares the bath, and her bed, with her son. But when Bubby's long-lost father (an alcoholic priest) returns home,

and to his wife's bed, the jealous Bubby is driven to head out into the world. Abused and exploited by everyone from feminists to prison inmates,

a policeman, animal lovers and the Salvation Army, Bubby, armed only with a few phrases he's learnt from his mother,

has a tough entry into an inhospitable world. But others soon warm to this innocent idiot savant,

and Bubby starts to find a place in the poisoned world from which he was confined.

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EzyDVD - All he needs is love.

L.A. Weekly called it "disturbing and compelling," and it was awarded The Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.

Despite a limited release in America, it would shock and delight audiences to become one of the most daring and controversial cult films of the past decade.

Nicholas Hope - in what Variety hails as "an astonishing performance" - stars as Bubby, a demented man-child kept locked his entire life in a squalid apartment by his depraved mother.

But when Bubby - who can only communicate by mimicking what others say and do escapes into the outside, he soon discovers the wonders of sex, crime, rock & roll and pizza. Will this 'mad bastard' be destroyed by the realities of our cruel world, or does a higher calling ultimately await him in the most unlikely place of all?

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CD Universe U.S - Australian director Rolf de Heer's bizarre parable of innocence and corruption, belief and redemption, paints a decidedly grim picture while allowing hints of optimistic humanism to filter through.

Bad Boy ...    Full DescriptionBubby (Nicholas Hope) is a 35-year-old manchild, confined his whole life by his domineering mother--who uses him for sex--to a two-room tenement apartment.

She has convinced Bubby that the air outside is poisonous, donning a gas mask every time she leaves; all this changes when Bubby's father, a priest who has lost his religion, shows up.

His presence both demonstrates the possibility of breathing the air outside, and inspires Bubby to an act of violence that upsets his enclosed world. Finding himself out on the street, the antisocial,

nearly mute Bubby must now encounter society, and his adventures run the gamut from poignant and funny to grim and brutal. He is seduced by a Salvation Army worker, adopted by a rock band with whom he performs,

imprisoned, raped, and saved again. An incredibly unique and eccentric film, BAD BOY BUBBY inspired some controversy upon its release, with some judging its themes so dark as to be unethical.

But this verdict belies the compassion and empathy latent in the treatment, which expands the piece to encompass both disillusionment with society, as well as hope for humanity. The film noir style presents a gritty,

raw view of a corrupt world, presented through honest, innocent eyes.

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Released: Friday, 22 July 2005 on DVD

Actors: Nicholas Hope Carmel Johnson Claire Benito Nikki Price Norman Kaye Ralph Cotterill Syd Brisbane  

Director: Rolf De Heer  

Country: Australia 

Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 

Aspect Ratio: 16:9 Enhanced - 720x304 rip

Transfer Format: Widescreen 

Category: Drama, Horror, Comedies, Cult, Rock Bands, Religion, Self-Discovery

Format: DVD  

Year: 1993 

Distributor: Shock  

Rating: R18+ 

Languages: English  

Subtitles: None  

Running Time: 01:49:21 



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