Rent The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
3.0 of 5 from 49 ratings
1h 33min
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- Synopsis:
- Based on actual case histories of people born without immunities, John Travolta plays such a boy who has to grow up in a specially controlled isolation bubble. Although protected from germs he is exposed to complex human relationships, particularly with the outspoken teenage temptress Glynnis O'Connor. Taunting and challenging she brings a brightness into his closet world and makes him realise that the one small step which might mean death also separates him from freedom.
- Actors:
- John Travolta, Glynnis O'Connor, Robert Reed, Diana Hyland, Karen Morrow, Howard Platt, Buzz Aldrin, Ralph Bellamy, John Friedrich, Kelly Ward, Skip Lowell, John Megna, Vernee Watson-Johnson, Darrell Zwerling, P.J. Soles, Timothy Himes, Victor Brandt, Hilda Haynes, Jack McLaughlin-Gray, Erna Foxworth
- Directors:
- Randal Kleiser
- Producers:
- Cindy Dunne, Joel Thurm
- Writers:
- Douglas Day Stewart, Joe Morgenstern
- Studio:
- Prism Leisure
- Genres:
- Drama, Romance
