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Bubble is a movie directed by Steven Soderbergh. It was shot on high-definition video and was made for only $1.6 million. It also featured some unusual production aspects.

The movie has no script in traditional terms script. All lines were improvised based on an outline written by screenwriter Coleman Hough (who previously teamed with Soderbergh on Full Frontal
). It was also shot and edited by Soderbergh under the pseudonyms Peter Andrews and Mary Ann Bernard, respectively.

The film utilizes non professional actors recruited from the Parkersburg, West Virginia / Belpre, Ohio area where the film was shot. Lead Debbie Doebereiner was found working the drive-through window in a Parkersburg Kentucky Fried Chicken, for example.

Bubble was released simultaneously in movie theaters and on the cable/satellite TV network HDNet Movies on January 27, 2006, with a DVD release following mere days after (January 31).

Bubble is the first of six films Soderbergh plans to shoot and release in the same manner.

According an Inc. Magazine article in January 2006, the film is a thriller that revolves around the murder of a young single mom who works at the "Lee Middelton" doll factory.

The score for the movie was done by Ohio native Robert Pollard.

Plot summary

The movie is about three people who live along the Ohio River who are just barely able to make ends meet. It starts out with Martha (Debbie Doebereiner) getting ready for work and taking care of her elderly father. She picks up Kyle (Dustin James Ashley) and they go to work at a doll-making factory. Kyle is probably Martha's only friend because she has to spend most of her time working or taking care of her father. There is a big order of dolls coming in so the factory hired another worker, Rose (Misty Dawn Wilkins), to help meet demands.

Martha doesn't like Rose from the beginning, but Kyle takes a liking to her. We find out that Rose has a two-year old daughter, but is unmarried, and that she used to work in a nursing home. Martha feels that Rose is taking advantage of her by asking for a ride to another job because Martha is the only one of the three that has a car.

Rose mentions to Martha that she wants to go out and she is looking for a baby-sitter. Martha accepts because she could use some extra money. It is not until Kyle arrives to pick up Rose that Martha finds out that the two are going out. On the date we find out that both Kyle and Rose dropped out of high school, Kyle because he has Social Anxiety Disorder and Rose because she wanted to rebel. Later in the date, at Kyle's house, Rose steals some cash from Kyle's room while he is getting them drinks. When Kyle drops Rose off at home, he doesn't want to go back inside because he got a "weird vibe" from Martha earlier.

As soon as Rose comes inside her house, her ex-boyfriend comes (who is also the father of her child) and accuses her of stealing money from his house. They get in a shouting match and he eventually leaves. Martha was sitting on the couch while they argued and after he leaves she asks Rose if she wants to talk about it. Rose angrily tells her to mind her own business.

Then next morning the cops are at Rose's house and say that the neighbors found her dead with her baby crying. There is no sign of forced entry and it is apparently a murder because there are strangle bruises on her neck. A detective questions her ex-boyfriend and Kyle about it but the claim to know nothing about it. During this time, Martha is pawning some of her family necklaces and other jewels off in order to buy some fishing equipment as a gift for Kyle. When she goes to Kyle's house to give him the gift, she finds out what happened to Rose. She is also surprised and claims to know nothing. Eventually the detective talks to her and she says the same.

It turns out that the fingerprints found around Rose's neck prove that Martha was the one that killed her. The detective tells her to confess, but she still claims to know nothing about it. Kyle visits her in prison. Martha tells Kyle that he has to help her. She says she doesn't know what happened but that it wasn't her. Later on, while in her jail cell, she sees herself a vision standing over Rose's dead body and she mutters to herself "Oh my God".

In the deleted scenes there is an alternate ending where Martha has a cat scan that shows a severely malignant tumor in her brain. The doctor explains that it is possible that the tumor could cause blackouts and very abnormal behavior.

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