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Bad Boy Bubby is an Australia

Australia

Australia , officially the Commonwealth of Australia, is a country in the Southern Hemisphere comprising the mainland of the Australian continent, the island of Tasmania, and numerous smaller islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans. It is the world's sixth-largest country by total area...

n black comedy

Black comedy

A black comedy, or dark comedy, is a comic work that employs black humor or gallows humor. The definition of black humor is problematic; it has been argued that it corresponds to the earlier concept of gallows humor; and that, as humor has been defined since Freud as a comedic act that anesthetizes...

/drama

Drama

Drama is the specific mode of fiction represented in performance. The term comes from a Greek word meaning "action" , which is derived from "to do","to act" . The enactment of drama in theatre, performed by actors on a stage before an audience, presupposes collaborative modes of production and a...

film written and directed by Rolf de Heer

Rolf de Heer

Rolf de Heer is a Dutch film director, writer and producer living in Australia. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and...

. It stars Nicholas Hope

Nicholas Hope

Nicholas Hope is an English born Australian actor currently living in Sydney, Australia. He is probably best known for his role in Bad Boy Bubby , for which he won the Australian Film Institute Best Actor in a Leading Role award in 1994...

and Carmel Johnson. It was released in 1993.

Bubby became notorious for pushing the boundaries of good taste with its strong scenes featuring violence, incest

Incest

Incest is sexual intercourse between close relatives that is usually illegal in the jurisdiction where it takes place and/or is conventionally considered a taboo. The term may apply to sexual activities between: individuals of close "blood relationship"; members of the same household; step...

and blasphemy

Blasphemy

Blasphemy is irreverence towards religious or holy persons or things. Some countries have laws to punish blasphemy, while others have laws to give recourse to those who are offended by blasphemy...

amongst other taboo topics.
Bubby (played by Hope) is a 35-year-old man who has never set foot outside his mother's (actress Claire Benito) dingy apartment in the back of a printing press in an industrial area of Adelaide.