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Bubble
Directed by
Steven Soderbergh
R
2005
73m
Drama
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Crime
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6.5
72%
61%
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Set against the backdrop of a decaying Midwestern town, a murder becomes the focal point of three people who work in a doll factory.
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Cast of Bubble
Debbie Doebereiner
Martha
Omar Cowan
Martha's Father
Dustin James Ashley
Kyle (as Dustin Ashley)
Phyllis Workman
Bakery Shopkeeper
Laurie L. Wee
Kyle's Mother (as Laurie Lee)
Daniel R. Christian
Factory Supervisor
Misty Wilkins
Rose
Madison Wilkins
Jesse
K. Smith
Jake
Decker Moody
Detective Don Taylor
Thomas R. Davis
Sergeant Davis
Ross Clegg
CSI
Scott Smeeks
Officer Smeeks
M. Stephen Deem
Pawn Shop Owner
Leonora K. Hornbeck
Tackle Shopkeeper
Katherine Beaumier
Hairdresser
Joyce Brookhart
Martha's Niece
David Hubbard
Pastor (Uncredited)
Steven Soderbergh
Director
Coleman Hough
Writer
Gregory Jacobs
Producer
Bubble Ratings & Reviews
Film Comment Magazine
Amy Taubin
Is there another contemporary filmmaker whose work swings as unpredictably between the seductive and the alienating as does Steven Soderbergh's?
AV Club
Noel Murray
Bubble is best considered as a failed-but-occasionally-nifty experiment.
Christian Science Monitor
Peter Rainer
The local atmosphere, filmed on the Ohio-West Virginia border, is rigorously authentic and so is the cast, none of whose members have acted before.
Observer
Andrew Sarris
These conversations are about as deadly dull as any dialogue I've ever heard even in the earliest talkies.
The New Yorker
David Denby
Soderbergh's use of the new technology makes this situation work.
Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Eleanor Ringel Cater
Soderbergh holds up a mirror to these lives of quiet desperation and shows us how unquiet they can be.
Austin Chronicle
Marjorie Baumgarten
Bubble is likely to be remembered more for its method of manufacture and release than for any inherent qualities of its own.
Slate
Stephen Metcalf
As the plot unfolded along the lines of a conventional melodrama, I couldn't help thinking: In addition to health care and a living wage, don't the working poor deserve makeup, wardrobe, decent lighting, and some heart-skipping drama?
Seattle Times
Moira MacDonald
The result is haunting and often creepy in its realism.
San Francisco Chronicle
Ruthe Stein
Proves that in the hands of a director with an artist's eye for telling details, a wholly original story revealing the complexity and, yes, bizarreness of human nature trumps star power every time.
New York Post
Lou Lumenick
A deadpan commentary on the emptiness of middle-American life, and Soderbergh manages to pull this off without condescending to the characters.
Houston Chronicle
Bruce Westbrook
A simple yet oddly profound tale of banal blue-collar lives shattered by an impulsive crime.
Detroit News
Tom Long
Soderbergh uses the mechanics of the grimy doll factory ... as metaphor, carefully tracking the shiny distractions we hide behind, revealing the awful little facts about their glued-on eyelashes and the identically blank faces they all start out with.
Detroit Free Press
Terry Lawson
It's an exceedingly simple drama that -- if you give yourself over to it -- can have a hypnotic effect.
Denver Post
Michael Booth
Tests the idea that the mundane becomes ominous if studied in enough detail.
CNN.com
Paul Clinton (CNN.com)
At times it's so mind-numbingly dull, it becomes funny. But it's not a feature film. I'm not really sure what it is.
Boston Globe
Ty Burr
Soderbergh has made an experiment worth seeing, but how much do you want to bet his actors have richer lives than the characters they're playing, even if those lives look just as ordinary?
USA Today
Claudia Puig
A haunting film, made all the more intriguing by the use of ordinary people, not actors, in all the roles.
Washington Post
Desson Thomson
Soderbergh and screenwriter Coleman Hough aren't interested in creating a coy whodunit so much as evoking the deeper, less romantic mysteries of people -- and it's riveting.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Steven Soderbergh's latest and willfully perverse excursion into experimentation.
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