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Bubble Boy is a 2001 American black comedy film directed by Blair Hayes, starring Jake Gyllenhaal in the title role. [3] It was inspired by the 1976 movie The Boy in the Plastic Bubble . [ 4 ] A musical by the same name was written by the same authors and first performed in 2008.
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 TV movie drama inspired by Vetter, starring John Travolta. The 1986 Paul Simon song "The Boy in the Bubble" was inspired by Vetter's story. [10] [11] In 1992, American sitcom Seinfeld parodied the case in their episode The Bubble Boy.
The Boy in the Bubble (novel), a 1994 book by Ian Strachan; Bubble Boy, a 2001 American comedy film directed by Blair Hayes "Lying Around the House / Bubble Boy", 2004, the 60th episode of the American superhero animated television series The Powerpuff Girls; Bubble Boy, a 2013 musical with music and lyrics by Cinco Paul
Bubble Boy is a musical with music and lyrics by Cinco Paul and book by Cinco Paul and Ken Daurio, based on the 2001 Touchstone Pictures' film Bubble Boy.Like the movie, it tells the story of Jimmy Livingston, a boy born without immunities who is forced to live in a plastic bubble room.
David Vetter, the original "bubble boy", had one of the first transplantations also, but eventually died because of an unscreened virus, Epstein-Barr (tests were not available at the time), in his newly transplanted bone marrow from his sister, an unmatched bone marrow donor. Today, transplants done in the first three months of life have a high ...
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is a 1976 American made for television drama film inspired by the lives of David Vetter and Ted DeVita, who lacked effective immune systems.It stars John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Diana Hyland, Robert Reed, Ralph Bellamy and P.J. Soles.
"The Bubble Boy" is the 47th episode of the American sitcom Seinfeld. It is the seventh episode of the fourth season. [ 1 ] In this episode, on the way to Susan 's family cabin, the cast visits a youth who lives in quarantine due to an immune deficiency .
He portrayed Mel Sanger, the bubble boy's dad, on Seinfeld, and played Joe Hackett's high-school baseball coach on a 1992 episode of Wings. He co-starred on the Fox TV series Get a Life and Bakersfield P.D. from 1991 to 1992 and 1993 to 1994, respectively, with a recurring role as sports editor Stuart Franklin on the Fox / UPN TV series Between ...