Bad Boy Bubby

Starring:Nicholas Hope, Claire Benito, Ralph Cotterill, Carmel Johnson, Syd Brisbane, Nikki Price, Norman Kaye, Paul Philpot, Peter Monaghan, Natalie Carr, Rachael Huddy, Bridget Walters, Ullie Birve, Audine Leith, Lucia Mastrantone, Jip De Heer, James Ammitzboll, Grant Piro, Celine O'Leary, Dave Flannagan
Director: Rolf de Heer
Studio: Blue Underground
Product Type: DVD

Editorial Review:
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Australian writer-director Rolf De Heer's 1993 semi-comic satire, Bad Boy Bubby, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for its sometimes savage vision of a modern society in which a Kaspar Hauser-like figure suddenly appears. Nicholas Hope is masterful as 35-year-old Bubby, who has been shut within his corpulent mother's airless apartment all his life, enduring sexual exploitation and mom's lies about the outside world being poisonous. When Bubby's estranged father turns up, the boy-man seizes an opportunity to flee, and embarks on a dark journey to encounter the unknown. De Heer keeps his innocent hero moving from situation to situation, like a great blank slate (think of Peter Sellers in Being There) absorbing and repeating whatever he sees and hears. Meanwhile, the people who meet him perceive exactly what they want to perceive. De Heer may be on a Swiftian mission to underscore humanity's corruption, but Hope is brilliant at the more subtle job of constructing, using few tools, Bubby's increasingly complex inner life. --Tom Keogh
Description
Winner of Four Australian Academy Awards, Including Best Actor - Nicholas Hope, Best Director - Rolf De Heer, and Best Original Screenplay.

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?

Amazon.com

Australian writer-director Rolf De Heer's 1993 semi-comic satire, Bad Boy Bubby, won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival for its sometimes savage vision of a modern society in which a Kaspar Hauser-like figure suddenly appears. Nicholas Hope is masterful as 35-year-old Bubby, who has been shut within his corpulent mother's airless apartment all his life, enduring sexual exploitation and mom's lies about the outside world being poisonous. When Bubby's estranged father turns up, the boy-man seizes an opportunity to flee, and embarks on a dark journey to encounter the unknown. De Heer keeps his innocent hero moving from situation to situation, like a great blank slate (think of Peter Sellers in Being There) absorbing and repeating whatever he sees and hears. Meanwhile, the people who meet him perceive exactly what they want to perceive. De Heer may be on a Swiftian mission to underscore humanity's corruption, but Hope is brilliant at the more subtle job of constructing, using few tools, Bubby's increasingly complex inner life. --Tom Keogh

Description

Winner of Four Australian Academy Awards, Including Best Actor - Nicholas Hope, Best Director - Rolf De Heer, and Best Original Screenplay.

Customer Reviews:

a fun loving romp!!.......2007-01-11

Bad Boy Bubby is one of the finest feel good movies ive ever seen. Bubby's joyous comedic romp through life makes us all sit back and say "hey, lets live a little!!" boy, i laughed so much my sides nearly split. a real hoot!

Not Quite Like Anything You've Ever Seen.......2007-01-10

I saw this DVD years ago during a trip to England, long before it made its way to this side of the pond. This is not like anything you've ever seen and is deeply worthy of the cult status it has around the world. Your jaw will drop in the first minutes of the film and not make its way back closed until long after it's over. And it will be a ride straight through. It's incredible and audacious (as are all of Aussie Rolf de Heer's works). Its sharply funny, deeply disturbing and a great piece of filmmaking. Watch it, but not on a first date!

A movie for deep minds.......2007-01-04

Bad Boy Bubby is without a doubt my all time favourite. Turn the phone off, close your gate, watch it without company only, and turn the volume up so you can hear every word.
I've watched it about 25 times, and it just gets better.

Autism,Off Spring Abuse,Jail Cell Rape,Mimic Behaviour,Decadence,Blasphemy& Compassions.......2006-12-22

12/22/06 The jacket of the DVD gives no indication that an amoral,sick, 35 year old man will commit 4 murders and kill 2 cats...The opening scenes not only show him as a 30 year hostage & abused of his mother (since the age of 5 ,when his alcoholic father abandons her & "Bubby") but him tearing insects apart and poking a cat he has encaged with a stick...his behaviour is totally based (except for the murders : he has no TV nor books that have influenced his "wipe 'em out via suffocation mentality)on mimicked behaviour.."his epiphany" is via evolution of many 'good,bad or ugly' people(including his own various temperments:in one case of his violating a convenience store clerk with harsh punches to the gut, and in another while bag pipes sounded ,him getting raped in a jail cell), many other situations ,scenarios plus an ending of 'anti-climax' that "justice" sent this 'bad boy' to bring down the final curtain , via unbelievably a "married with children" scene.

This Is not your average Hollywood blockbuster.......2006-10-09

This movie is certainly an eye-opener. It may shock and disturb in some places but will leave you on an emotional high. You can feel yourself being consumed by the movie and almost living in the character and growing with him. Be warned this movie will stay in your head for a long time. But on a positive note there is a happy ending and is quite comical in some places, both purposely and accidently. The special features are excellent and anyone interested in movie making like myself, will definitely enjoy the very insightful directors commentary.

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