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| name = Bad Boy Bubby

| image = Bad Boy =Bubby Bad_boy_bubbyposter.jpg

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| caption = =Australian [[Blue Undergrounddaybill]] DVD coverposter

| director = [[Rolf de Heer]]

| producer = {{Plainlist|

| writer = Rolf de Heer

| starring = {{Plainlist|

* [[Ralph Cotterill]]

| music = [[Graham Tardif]]

| editing = Suresh Ayyar

| studio = {{ubl|[[Fandango (Italian company)|Fandango]]|[[South Australian Film Corporation]]}}

| distributor = {{ubl|[[Roadshow Entertainment]]|Umbrella Entertainment}}

| released = {{Film date|df=y|1993|09|1|[[Venice Film Festival]]|1994|07|28|Australia}}

| runtime = 114 minutes<!--Submitted runtime: 113:56--><ref>{{cite web|title=''BADBad BOYBoy BUBBYBubby'' (18)|url=http://www.bbfc.co.uk/releases/bad-boy-bubby-1970-2BVF065146|work=[[British Board of Film Classification]]|date=19 August 1994|access-date=31 July 2013}}</ref>

| country = {{ubl|Australia|Italy}}

| language = {{ubl|English|German}}

| budget = {{AUD}}A$800,000<ref name="ASO">{{cite web|url=https://aso.gov.au/titles/features/bad-boy-bubby/notes/|title=Bad Boy Bubby (1993)|work=[[Australian Screen Online]]|publisher=[[National Film and Sound Archive]]|first=Paul|last=Byrnes|access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref>

| gross = {{AUD}}A$808,789<ref name="gross"/>

'''''Bad Boy Bubby''''' is a 1993 [[Psychological fiction|psychological]] [[Absurdist fiction|absurdist]] [[black comedy]] film<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.allmovie.com/movie/bad-boy-bubby-v147599|title=Bad Boy Bubby (1993)|website=[[AllMovie]]|access-date=15 November 2021}}</ref> written and directed by [[Rolf de Heer]], and starring [[Nicholas Hope]], Claire Benito, [[Ralph Cotterill]], and Carmel Johnson.

''Bad Boy Bubby'' premiered at the [[50th Venice International Film Festival]] on 1 September 1993, where it won the [[SpecialGrand Jury Prize (Venice Film Festival)|SpecialGrand Jury Prize]]. It was released in Australia the following year, and was met with positive reviews. Although it was a [[Box -office bomb|box office failure]], the film has gained a [[cult following]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.theguardian.com/film/australia-culture-blog/2014/may/16/bad-boy-bubby-rewatching-classic-australian-films|title=Bad Boy Bubby: rewatching classic Australian films|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|first=Luke|last=Buckmaster|date=16 May 2014|access-date=14 November 2016}}</ref>

In an industrial area of [[Adelaide]], Bubby is a mentally challenged 35-year-old man who lives in a squalid house with his abusive and [[Religious fanaticism|religious fanatic]] mother, Florence. He has never left the house, due to his mother convincing him that the air outside is toxic, and [[Jesus]] will strike him down should he leave. He and his mother regularly have [[Incest|incestuous]] sex, andwith his mother often encouraging Bubby to fondle her breasts. The two have no other company except for a pet cat, which Bubby accidentally kills with [[Plastic wrap|clingwrap]]. Suddenly, Bubby's father Harold returns, after having abandoned Florence years earlier. Harold did not know he had a son, but he comes to disdain Bubby, and mocks him for his presumed mental disorder. Harold beats Bubby, and encourages Florence to do so as well. Tired of the abuse, Bubby suffocates his parents with clingwrap, and decides to venture outside for the first time.

* Claire Benito as Mam (Flo/Florence)

* [[Ralph Cotterill]] as Pop

* Paul Philpot as Paul (band singer)

* ToddBruce TelfordGilbert as Little GregDan

* PaulMichael SimpsonConstantinou as BigThe GregAnimal

* PeterNorman MonaghanKaye as SteveThe Scientist

Shortly after he had graduatedgraduating from film school, Rolf de Heer andcollaborated with Ritchie Singer collaborated on the idea of what would eventually become ''Bad Boy Bubby''. For most of the 1980s, de Heer collected ideas and wrote them on index cards. In 1987, he took a hiatus from making ''Bubby'' index cards, but in 1989 he resumed work. Sometime betweenIn 1989 andor 1990, he saw the short film ''Confessor Caressor'' starring [[Nicholas Hope]] (which would eventually be included on the bonus DVD when ''Bad Boy Bubby'' was first released on DVD in 2004) and tracked him down. In 1991, hede Heer began work on the actual script.

After he heard a rumour about the reintroduction of the death penalty to Australia, de Heer was angered and rewrote the ending so that Bubby would be executed at the end of the film. This ending was scrapped when the rumour proved to be false.

TheFilming filmtook was recordedplace in [[Port Adelaide]] between 30 November 1992 and 16 January 1993.

The people with [[cerebral palsy]] Bubby meets at the 1 hour 30 minute mark are not actors, but actual disabled people. Hope, awho devoutwas raised Catholic, found the scenes where Bubby curses God in front of Angel's parents difficult to film.{{Citation needed|date=November 2022}}

Director de Heer describes the film as one large experiment, especially in the method used to record the dialogue: [[Binaural recording|binaural microphones]] were sewn into the wig worn by leading actor Nicholas Hope, one above each ear. This method gave the sound tracksoundtrack a unique sound that closely resembled what the character would actually be hearing. The film also used 31 individual [[director of photography|directors of photography]] to shoot different scenes. Once Bubby leaves the apartment a different director of photography is used for every location until the last third of the film, allowing an individual visual slant on everything Bubby sees for the first time. No director of photography was allowed to refer to the work of the others.<ref>{{cite web | last=de Heer | first=Rolf | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080304162301/http://www.angelfire.com/movies/badboybubby/interview.htm | archive-date=4 March 2008 | url=http://www.angelfire.com/movies/badboybubby/interview.htm | title=Directors Statement – London Film Festival | year=1993 | access-date=12 April 2010 }}</ref>

When the film was released in Italy, a coalition of animal rights groups tried to set up a boycott of Australian products, alleging that Bubby's pet cat was wrapped in plastic wrapping and suffocated to death on film, but Rolf de Heer has said that none of that is true; the cat scenes were carefully filmed, with a veterinarian and animal cruelty inspector on set. Nicholas Hope, in an on-stage interview included on the DVD of the film, says there were two cats, one of which became a pet of a crew member. The other was a feral cat that was put down by a vet after filming (as with most feral cats that are caught in Australia).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://aso.gov.au/titles/features/bad-boy-bubby/notes/|title=Curator's notes Bad Boy Bubby (1993) on ASO -– Australia's audio and visual heritage online|website=Aso.gov.au|access-date=18 December 2021}}</ref> Film critic [[Mark Kermode]] left the screening due to the apparent animal abuse in the making of the film.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.heyuguys.com/bad-boy-bubby-a-retrospective/|title=Retrospective: Bad Boy Bubby|first=Jack|last=Hawkins|website=Heyuguys.com|date=7 May 2020|access-date=18 December 2021}}</ref>

|rowspan=8|[[AACTA Awards]]<br /><small>(1994 [[Australian Film Institute Awards|AFI Awards]])</small><ref>{{Cite web |title=1994 |url=https://www.aacta.org/aacta-awards/awards-history/1994/ |access-date=2023-06-11 |website=www.aacta.org |language=en-AU}}</ref>

On 23 April 2007, Eureka Entertainment released ''Bad Boy Bubby'' on [[DVD]] for the UK market with all scenes intact. On the [[Blue Underground]] DVD, director [[Rolf de Heer]] claims that ''Bubby'' was the second highest-grossing film in Norway in 1995. In the UK, it was cut for [[Animal cruelty|cruelty to a cat]].<ref>{{Cite web|url=httphttps://www.imdbthebedlamfiles.com/titlenonfiction/tt0106341bad-boy-bubby-controversies/alternateversions|title=Bad Boy Bubby (1993)|access-date=1811 DecemberJune 20212023|website=IMDb.comThe Bedlam Files}}</ref> The film was released on DVD in April 2005 in the United States by the [[Blue Underground]] company, and a special Two Disc Collectors' Edition was also released in Australia in June 2005 by Umbrella Entertainment. Umbrella reissued the film on Blu-ray in February 2021, newly- remastered from the original negative. The Blu-ray contained all the special features from the 2005 DVD, plus a Q&A session with Nicholas Hope and Natalie Carr and a 25th anniversary commentary. The film had previously been released on Blu-ray in Australia in 2011, using the same transfer used for the 2005 DVD and containing all the special features from it.

''Bad Boy Bubby'' became a big hit in Norway, second only to ''[[Forrest Gump]]'' with [[Nicholas Hope|Hope]] an actor in demand there.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://janefreeburywriter.com.au/bad-boy-bubby-re-visited/|title=Bad Boy Bubby re-visited|website=Janefreeburywriter.com.au|date=1 December 2017|access-date=18 December 2021}}</ref>

[[David Stratton]], film critic for ''[[The Movie Show]]'', praised ''Bad Boy Bubby''. He awarded the film five stars out of five, remarking, "I really think this is one of the finest and most original of all Australian films that I've seen. I really think it's a milestone in Australian cinema".<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://www.sbs.com.au/movies/video/11707971545/Bad-Boy-Bubby-Review|title=Bad Boy Bubby: Review|newspaper=SBS Movies|access-date=2017-01-05}}</ref> It also holds a 100% approval rating on the review aggregation site [[Rotten Tomatoes]], based on 10 reviews, with a [[weighted arithmetic mean|weighted average]] of 7.9/10.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bad_boy_bubby/|title=''Bad Boy Bubby''|publisherwebsite=[[Rotten Tomatoes]]|access-date= 23 February 2021}}</ref>

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