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Film Description
Awarded the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, Bad Boy Bubby's hard-hitting content of deprivation, mental illness and incest, shocked its audiences to become one of the most daring and controversial cult films of the 1990s.
Nicholas Hope gives an astonishing performance as Bubby, a demented man-child kept locked for his entire life in a squalid apartment by his depraved mother who uses him for sex. When Bubby who can only communicate by mimicking what others say and do, escapes into the outside world, he soon discovers young women, crime, rock'n'roll, and pizza. Will this naive '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?
Well what can I say - my favourite film of all time - quite disturbing. When you watch it for the first time the first 30 minutes are pretty hard going - incestuous r... more >
Well what can I say - my favourite film of all time - quite disturbing. When you watch it for the first time the first 30 minutes are pretty hard going - incestuous relationships and "princess pink lipstick". It starts getting better around the time pop comes into the film and the scene with the family cat (I won't spoil it for you). I find you don't know whether to laugh or cry - it's quite taboo to make fun of mental illness, but this film takes your view of it and turns it on its head, just when you feel that it is becoming really hysterical - then it moves into dark unknown territory again. For me, the film questions the norms and the boundaries of society - what really is normal. Best watched when semi-drunk. Now be still.
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Amy on 15th August 2000
Bad Boy Bubby is a well written film, exploring every aspect of humanity from someone looking back at us. It deals with issues of religion, sex, beauty, manipulation, ... more >
Bad Boy Bubby is a well written film, exploring every aspect of humanity from someone looking back at us. It deals with issues of religion, sex, beauty, manipulation, love and the strange controlled society in which we live. It makes you contemplate your own existence and your beliefs and criticisms. Or you could look at it on the surface level and have a good laugh and hiss at every cat you see. < less
