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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
Directed by Randal Kleiser
“A lifetime of loneliness...Or one day of love”
TV Movie, Drama · 1h 36m
Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.
Cast
John Travolta
Glynnis O'Connor
Robert Reed
Diana Hyland
Karen Morrow
Howard Platt
Buzz Aldrin
Ralph Bellamy
Kelly Ward
John Megna
Crew
- Director
- Randal Kleiser
- Writer
- Douglas Day Stewart
- Director of Photography
- Archie R. Dalzell
- Original Music Composer
- Mark Snow
- Editor
- John McSweeney Jr.
- Producer
- Joel Thurm, Cindy Dunne
Details
- Release date
- 1976-11-12
- Runtime
- 1h 36m
- Genres
- TV Movie, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Spelling-Goldberg Productions