| Overview: | 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?
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