“All he needs is love.”
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.
Nicholas Hope
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Ralph Cotterill
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Bad Boy Bubby is a crime, drama, comedy film released in 1993 exploring themes of nurse, cat, religion, torture, incest, buxom. Directed by Rolf de Heer, it stars Nicholas Hope, Ralph Cotterill, Claire Benito. 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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