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Bio-Dome: Kylie Minogue's worst career move is a blueprint for managing isolation

Starring Pauly Shore and a lesser Baldwin, the 1996 comedy is full of gross-out humour, terrible jokes – and surprisingly salient lessons
Bio-Dome’s Doyle and Bud are respectively played by one of the lesser Baldwins and Pauly Shore, who is a kind of weirder Adam Sandler. Photograph: Gene Page/Mgm/Kobal/ REX/Shutterstock

Pubescents and teenagers had a huge cinematic year in 1996. There was , Beavis and Butthead Do America, Kingpin and Bio-Dome – a film about two carefree imbeciles, Bud and Doyle, who get trapped inside a self-sustaining science experiment for a year when one of them needs to take a piss. It’s a puerile film full of gross jokes but its premise

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