Under quarantine, some people feel like they’ve turned into the proverbial boy in the plastic bubble; others are desperately trying to turn into him. The other day, a New York City quarantiner used ...

Nobody would mistake Bubble Boy, the Disney Touchstone movie that opened last week, for high art. It’s full of the tasteless humor and crude pratfalls that appeal to fifth-grade boys. Critics have ...

Click on the audio player above to hear this interview. When David Vetter was born in 1971 with severe combined immunodeficiency (SCID), an experiment to keep him alive made him famous. Vetter became ...

Disney's innocuous, innocent and somewhat idiotic "Bubble Boy " is a bubble-headed road movie comedy that plays as a farcical remake of the 1976 cult TV-movie melodrama "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble.

A rancid comedy that suggests Todd Haynes' Safe remade as a perversely depressing slapstick romp, Bubble Boy stars Jake Gyllenhaal as a boy born without immunities who spends his childhood and ...

All the mad world’s a freak’s show in Bubble Boy. And every freak’s a child of God — or the higher power of your choice. Say a combination of Frankenstein and a lesser John Waters dug up The Wizard of ...