The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

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The Boy in the Plastic Bubble ★★½ 1976

Well-made, sensitive drama about a young man born with immunity deficiencies who must grow up in a specially controlled plastic environment. Travolta is endearing as the boy in the bubble. 100m/C VHS, DVD . John Travolta, Robert Reed, Glynnis O'Connor, Diana Hyland, Ralph Bellamy, Anne Ramsey, Vernee Watson-Johnson, P.J. Soles, John Friedrich; D: Randal Kleiser; W: Douglas Day Stewart; C: Arch R. Dalzell; M: Paul Williams, Mark Snow. TV

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