In possibly the most inane and insanely funny role of her long career, Swoosie Kurtz, is exquisitely evil as a demented, sex-phobic, June Cleaver-type mom, baking crucifix-shaped cookies for Jimmy and reading him fairy-tales with improvised endings about the hero “who touched the whore next door and died” (Pinocchio) or “who tried to leave the house and died” or “who didn’t listen to his mommy and died.” But alas, as hard as a parent might try, little boys grow up to be big boys with hormones raging and recitation of the Pledge of Allegiance on arousal will not cure this.Įnter the virgin Chloe, relative new girl to the neighborhood who, despite stories from her peers, enters the Livingston home in search of Jimmy. Despite never having left his suburban home in sunny Palmdale, California, Jimmy has had a full, well-rounded life (not!) thanks to his loving, over-protective, religious zealot of a mother who uses Jimmy’s IDS to keep him from experiencing or even realizing the “horrors” of the heathen world in which we live. Starring wide-eyed Jake Gyllenhaal as the innocent and utterly appealing 17 year old Jimmy Livingston, and Heather Graham look-alike Marley Shelton as the girl-next-door-object-of- his-affection, Chloe, first time director Blair Hayes puts a fresh spin on a tale of love conquering all.īorn with Immune Deficiency Syndrome, Jimmy has lived his entire life in a room size zip-loc plastic bubble designed to safeguard his immune deficient body from germs.
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