The Boy in the Plastic Bubble
Summary:
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 fall... Full Summary >>
Cast:
John Travolta - (Tod Lubitch)
Diana Hyland - (Mickey Lubitch)
Robert Reed - (Johnny Lubitch)
Ralph Bellamy - (Dr. Ernest Gunther)
Glynnis O'Connor - (Gina Biggs)
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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 Jo... Continue >>
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