![]() Little next-door-neighbor Gina Biggs (Kimberly Kirsch) is brought around for Tod's solitary birthday parties, but as she and Tod grow older, high schooler Gina (Glynnis O'Connor), fascinated and repulsed by the reclusive Tod (John Travolta), views him a pathetic, strange creature. Little Tod (Seth Wagerman) spends his first years at the hospital in a germ-free environment, never touched by human hands, before Mickey's desire to have Tod at home spurs the hospital to help the Lubitches to create a similar environment for Tod at their home. Gunther (Ralph Bellamy) tells the anxious parents that Tod won't be able to live a normal life, since even the most innocuous germ could cause his death. Johnny and Mickey Lubitch (Robert Reed and Diana Hyland), apprehensive about Mickey's latest pregnancy after losing their first baby to an insufficient immune system, decide to go ahead with their next pregnancy after learning from their doctor that the odds are only 25% that this baby will suffer the same affliction. Fans of The Boy in the Plastic Bubble who had had to put up with all those blurry, washed-out, noisy public domain copies of the title will want to grab this Sony Choice Collection version now: its sharp, colorful transfer is terrific.ฤก959. Now.it may play fast and loose with the facts, and its science is questionable at best, but as a sweet teen love story, it's hard to beat. ![]() ![]() One of the most fondly-remembered "disease of the week" MTV movies from that genre's "golden age," The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, released right before Travolta fever really exploded, was a huge ratings' hit for ABC when it premiered, becoming one of those shared TV events (back in the days of only three network channels) that millions of people my age can point to as an easily recognizable pop culture touchstone. Uh.they couldn't just adopt? Sony's Choice Collection vault of hard-to-find cult and library titles has released The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, the legendary 1976 made-for-TV movie starring John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Robert Reed, Diana Hyland, and Ralph Bellamy.
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