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Overview

User Rating:
7.4/10   3,049 votes
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Director:
Rolf de Heer
Writer:
Rolf de Heer (writer)
Contact:
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Release Date:
26 April 2005 (USA) more
Genre:
Comedy | Crime | Drama more
Tagline:
All he needs is love. more
Plot:
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... more | add synopsis
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Awards:
7 wins & 2 nominations more
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(4 articles)
DVD Playhouse--July 2009
 (From The Hollywood Interview. 8 July 2009, 1:32 AM, PDT)

Blu-ray Dates
 (From SmellsLikeScreenSpirit. 6 July 2009, 10:00 AM, PDT)

User Comments:
Crazy, insane, black, funny, terrifying, weird, SUPERB. more

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)
Nicholas Hope ... Bubby
Claire Benito ... Mam
Ralph Cotterill ... Pop
Carmel Johnson ... Angel
Syd Brisbane ... Yobbo
Nikki Price ... Screaming Woman
Norman Kaye ... The Scientist
Paul Philpot ... Paul (Band Singer)
Peter Monaghan ... Steve
Natalie Carr ... Cherie the Salvo
Rachael Huddy ... Rachael
Bridget Walters ... Angel's mother
Ullie Birve ... Robbed Woman
Audine Leith ... Fondled Salvo
Lucia Mastrantone ... Pizza Waitress
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Additional Details

Runtime:
114 min
Country:
Australia | Italy
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
2.35 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby

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Trivia:
During shooting director Rolf de Heer heard a rumor that the Australian government might legalize the death penalty. Outraged at this, Rolf de Heer wrote an alternate ending which featured Bubby being arrested and hanged for his crimes. He eventually changed his mind and the ending was never shot. more
Quotes:
Bubby: Me be pop now. more
Movie Connections:
Referenced in "Game-On: (#3.2)" (1998) more

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42 out of 51 people found the following comment useful:-
Crazy, insane, black, funny, terrifying, weird, SUPERB., 21 February 2001
10/10
Author: mogwai-1 (mogwai@maths.tcd.ie) from Dublin, Ireland

This film changed my life. No, really. It was a Friday night, and the parents were away. I was on my own in front of the television, and Channel 4 (UK + Irish viewers will know of it) was showing Bad Boy Bubby as part of some cult film season. Well, to cut a long story short, I was glued to the screen for the duration of the film (I drooled and stared at it during the commercial breaks) and when it was over, I realised that the dinner was entirely burnt. Not a particularly relevant story, you may think, but note that the television was IN THE KITCHEN, mere feet from the oven. That's how good this film is. It features possibly the greatest crazy monologue ever committed to celluloid (the pub/microphone scene), two of the most disturbing murders in any movie I've seen (and I've seen thousands), one of the most unsettling relationships I've seen, and an unbelievable central performance. This film is darker than dark, and stranger than Eraserhead. Just as Bubby is on his own throughout the film, so is the viewer. Alone, confused and disturbed beyond words.

And I've never thought of the Salvation Army in the same way since.

10/10

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