Bad Boy Bubby

"It may be muddled, but one can't deny its ambitions, or the integrity of Hope's performance."

"Something to offend just about everybody. Provocative in content, and stylistically daring and inventive."

"Hope gives an astonishing performance, while the film manages marvellously to weave grotesque humour from the indefensible. It's a one‑off weirdie, offputting for whole stretches but unforgettable, not for everyone but highly recommended to the discerning."

"The opening of writer/director Rolf de Heer’s 1993 cult classic Bad Boy Bubby is unnerving to say the least, and there’s a great deal more where that came from. This unrelentingly dark walk on the wild side – a character portrait of a trapped and tortured soul who has spent the first 35 years of his existence in a grotty apartment and is set loose on society, with humorous and tragic consequences – stunned Australian cinemagoers on its release."

"The miracle of casting; with Bad Boy Bubby, Rolf de Heer plucked Nicholas Hope from obscurity and gave him the role of his acting life"