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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
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1hr 40min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1976
Director:
Randal Kleiser
Distributor:
Essex
Starring:
John Travolta, Diana Hyland, Robert Reed  ...more
Synopsis: Welcome Back Kotter star John Travolta headlines the made-for-TV Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Douglas Day Stewart's fact-based teleplay casts Travolta as Tod Lubitsch, a teenager who was born without disease immunities. Tod is forced to live out his life in incubator conditions; whenever he vetnures into the outdoors, he must be encased in a huge plastic bubble. When he falls in love with Gina Biggs (Glynnis O'Connor), Tod must decide between staying safe and following his heart, which would mean facing ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble is often remembered as the gloriously dated disease-of-the-week movie from the 1970s -- the first feature-length vehicle for John Travolta, made for the medium of television, where he was the breakout star of Welcome Back Kotter. But it's also the only produced feature-length teleplay by noted film critic Joe Morgenstern of The Wall Street Journal. Well, neither needs ... Full Review
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John Travolta
Tod Lubitch
Diana Hyland
Mickey Lubitch
Robert Reed
Johnny Lubitch
Ralph Bellamy
Dr. Ernest Gunther
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