Bad Boy Bubby 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. One day, Bubby accidentally kills his parents and escapes into the real world.
1932, Yorkshire, England, UK
1965, South Australia, Australia
17 January 1927, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
25 December 1958, Manchester, England, UK
February 27, 2007
The success of the film is largely due to the bravura performance by Hope.
August 30, 2005
The miracle of casting; with Bad Boy Bubby, Rolf de Heer plucked Nicholas Hope from obscurity and gave him the role of his acting life
June 01, 2016
this dark satire-cum-parable (cling)wraps itself in a quirkily beautiful aesthetic that keeps us watching even when the material is at its most repellent or alarming.
September 25, 2001
A memorable, affecting and quietly exceptional tale
August 14, 2009
You may not understand Bubby, but damn if you won't want to take him home with you -- if only for an hour or so.
