BUBBLE BOY is a zany and lighthearted but irreverent road comedy from music video director Blair Hayes. Jake Gyllenhaal (OCTOBER SKY, DONNIE DARKO) stars as Jimmy Livingston, a young man born with an immune deficiency, who is forced to spend his life inside a sterile plastic bubble. His overprotective, fanatical right-wing Christian mother (Swoosie Kurtz) doesn't let him have friends, and the only TV show she lets him watch is LAND OF THE LOST.
Jake Gyllenhaal with Marley Shelton in "Bubble Boy" (2001).
The pretty girl next door, Chloe (Marley Shelton - VALENTINE, SUGAR & SPICE, NEVER BEEN KISSED, PLEASANTVILLE) visits him, and the two become friends. Because they can't touch each other through his bubble, they keep their passions in check, but when Chloe goes to Niagara Falls to marry her creepy boyfriend, Jimmy builds a portable bubble and leaves home for the first time to stop her.
"In (Untitled) we meet two sparring artist brothers, Adrian (Adam Goldberg) and Josh (Eion Bailey), as well as the dominatrix-gallerist (Marley Shelton) who comes between them as they get caught up in the same dilemma: is contemporary art for the self, or for the masses? 
Offscreen, the actor, director, and music-maker Adam Goldberg playfully struggles with a similar catch-22. “There’s something about boldly selling out, which is to me much cleaner than just kind of half-assing it,” he explains.
Then again, Goldberg, on the outside, doesn’t seem to be concerned about mainstream draw. Well, maybe. From the Kosha’ blaxploitation street hero in The Hebrew Hammer to the lovelorn designer in Two Days in Paris, the idiosyncratic roles Goldberg chooses hardly make him appealing to the masses. 
LC Although Marley Shelton’s stiletto-wearing, dominatrix-gallerist character Madeleine is a bit over the top, it feels accurate.
AG Yeah, I think she’s great. She’s just slick enough that she’s super-believable as someone who’s that girl, but has this whole other thing going on. And I like that she shows who she really is. She’s this mod-feminist Sarah Lawrence girl, sitting in her apartment, with the Sarah Lawrence T-shirt.
And when she starts to cry—those are two of my favorite bits. At the end of the day, well, I’m going back to that September Issue kind of thing. Anna Wintour, you know, what is it really like when she’s alone, in the bathroom, by herself? You don’t really get to see that concept in that movie. To me, that movie is just not too revealing". Source: www.vmagazine.com
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