A coming-of-age comedy in which a naive lad hits the road in hopes of stopping his soon-to-be-wed sweetheart from marrying the wrong guy. Along the way, he hooks up with a variety of bizarre characters, including a van full of pious weirdos, a bunch of tattooed bikers and a gang of runaway freaks. The movie's side-splitting comic conceit: Not only has sheltered, 17-year-old Jimmy Livingston (Jake Gyllenhaal) been raised by a fanatically religious mother (Swoosie Kurtz), but he was born without an immune system and has spent his life in a plastic bubble. Shunned by the neighborhood kids, young Jimmy was befriended by Chloe (Marley Shelton), the kind of only-in-the-mov...
Released:
2001
Rated:
PG-13
Length:
90 mins