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And I just wish that they would see the movie before they judge it." She said: "It's ironic because one of the themes of the film is things aren't always as they seem. Marley Shelton plays Chloe, the girl next door, with whom the Bubble Boy falls in love. Their objections were based on the preview trailers running in US cinemas. Many critics of the film, including representatives from The Immune Deficiency Foundation, have acknowledged that they called for a boycott of the movie without seeing it first.
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The film is a new take on the more serious 1976 TV movie, The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, which starred John Travolta. "There would have been other ways to handle the disease and to handle David's memory but it was not done in a way that I consider suitable," she said. "It treats the disease, a primary immune disease, with little regard by mocking it," added Mrs Demaret. Trailers have shown the boy being run over by a bus and bounced around like a beach ball at a rock concert. It says to our young adolescents and that is their target audience that it's okay to laugh at those with special needs or handicap."īubble Boy has been promoted as a "gag-a-minute" comedy. "I'm offended by the fact that it was treated with such disregard to his memory. There are also claims that the film mirrors the real-life story of David Vetter from Texas, who was born in 1971 with Severe Combined Immune Deficiency (SCID).ĭavid, who died at the age of 12, became known as the Bubble Boy and a symbol for children with SCID.Ĭarol Ann Demaret, David's mother, said she was appalled when she first saw promotions for the film, saying they showed no respect for her late son.
Parents of children with the condition have protested that the movie makes light of a serious disorder which isolates its victims and kills most people at a young age.
He eventually ventures in to the outside world when he learns that his childhood sweetheart is engaged to be married.īut the Immune Deficiency Foundation has said the film makes fun of people with immune deficiencies. A new Disney comedy about a boy with no immune system is facing a threatened boycott in the United States.īubble Boy, which opens on Friday, is about a young man called Jimmy who lives in a plastic bubble in his bedroom.
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