All he needs is love.
L.A. Weekly called it “disturbing and compelling,” and it was awarded The
Grand Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival. Despite a limited release
in America, it would shock and delight audiences to become one of the most
daring and controversial cult films of the past decade. Nicholas Hope – in
what Variety hails as “an astonishing performance” – stars as Bubby, a
demented man-child kept locked his entire life in a squalid apartment by his
depraved mother. But when Bubby – who can only communicate by mimicking what
others say and do – escapes into the outside, he soon discovers the wonders
of sex, crime, rock & roll and pizza. Will this ‘mad bastard’ be
destroyed by the realities of our cruel world, or does a higher calling
ultimately await him in the most unlikely place of all?