Who starred in the movie The Bubble Boy?
Jake Gyllenhaal, Marley Shelton, Swoosie Kurtz, Danny Trejo, Dave Sheridan, John Carroll Lynch, Brian Gattas, Arden Myrin and Geoffrey Arend were in the feature film ‘The Bubble Boy.’ See: http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/archive/bubbleboy.html John Travolta starred in ‘The Boy in the Plastic Bubble’ a 1976 made for TV movie. See: http://www.eonline.com/Facts/Movies/0,60,2413,00.html Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease, or SCID, is a real yet rare, inherited congenital disorder dubbed ‘Bubbly Boy Disease.’ The best-known victim was David, Houston’s famous ‘bubble boy’ who lived in a germ-proof plastic enclosure until his death at age 12 in 1984.
