critiQs

Login Sign-up
The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

The Boy in the Plastic Bubble

# A lifetime of loneliness...Or one day of love
TV Movie   Drama
📜 Overview: Tod Lubitch is born with a deficient immune system. As such, he must spend the rest of his life in a completely sterile environment. His room is completely hermetically sealed against bacteria and virus, his food is specially prepared, and his only human contact comes in the form of gloved hands. The movie follows his life into a teenager.
🌏 Languages Available: English
📆 Date Released: 1976-11-12
⌚ Running Time: 96 mins
⭐ Vote Average: 5.7

Beloved Cast

John Travolta original image
Tod Lubitch
John Travolta
Glynnis O'Connor original image
Gina Biggs
Glynnis O'Connor
Robert Reed original image
Johnny Lubitch
Robert Reed
Diana Hyland original image
Mickey Lubitch
Diana Hyland
Karen Morrow original image
Martha Biggs
Karen Morrow
Howard Platt original image
Neighbor
Howard Platt
Buzz Aldrin original image
Himself
Buzz Aldrin
Ralph Bellamy original image
Dr. Gunther
Ralph Bellamy
John Friedrich original image
Roy Slater
John Friedrich
Kelly Ward original image
Tom Shuster
Kelly Ward
Skip Lowell original image
Bruce Shuster
Skip Lowell
John Megna original image
Smith
John Megna
Vernee Watson-Johnson original image
Gwen
Vernee Watson-Johnson
Darrell Zwerling original image
Mr. Brister
Darrell Zwerling
P.J. Soles original image
Deborah
P.J. Soles
Timothy Himes original image
Obnoxious Reporter
Timothy Himes
Victor Brandt original image
TV Installer
Victor Brandt
Hilda Haynes original image
The Nurse
Hilda Haynes
Jack McLaughlin-Gray original image
Principal
Jack McLaughlin-Gray
Erna Foxworth original image
Neighbor
Erna Foxworth
Karri Kirsch original image
Gina at 3 Years Old
Karri Kirsch
Kimberly Kirsch original image
Gina at 3 Years Old
Kimberly Kirsch
Seth Wagerman original image
Tod at 3 Years Old
Seth Wagerman
Anne Ramsey original image
Rachel
Anne Ramsey
Len Felber original image
Graduation Spectator (uncredited)
Len Felber

Similar Movies

7.5
Movie Name : I Killed My Mother
Release Date : 🕔 2009-06-05
Average Rating: 7.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Hubert, a brash 17-year-old, is confused and torn by a love-hate relationship with his mother that consumes him more and …

6.1
Movie Name : Gemma Bovery
Release Date : 🕔 2014-09-10
Average Rating: 6.1
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Martin, an ex-Parisian well-heeled hipster passionate about Gustave Flaubert who settled into a Norman village as a baker, sees an …

7.5
Movie Name : To Sir, with Love
Release Date : 🕔 1967-06-14
Average Rating: 7.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A British Guianese engineer starts a job as a high school teacher in London’s East End, where his uninterested and …

8.0
Movie Name : Together
Release Date : 🕔 2009-05-14
Average Rating: 8.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A year after his brother's death, Rob discovers that the only way to help his father cope with the loss …

5.0
Movie Name : A Dream of Kings
Release Date : 🕔 1969-12-15
Average Rating: 5.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A Greek American father of a dying boy decides to take his son to Greece to breathe the clean air …

6.4
Movie Name : Der Sohn
Release Date : 🕔 2017-06-26
Average Rating: 6.4
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Katharina and her son Stefan (16) live in a small town where everybody knows everybody. Stefan has been born with …

7.3
Movie Name : Dirty Dancing
Release Date : 🕔 1987-08-21
Average Rating: 7.3
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances 'Baby' Houseman is surprised …

6.3
Movie Name : Italian for Beginners
Release Date : 🕔 2000-12-07
Average Rating: 6.3
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the …

7.8
Movie Name : Donnie Darko
Release Date : 🕔 2001-01-19
Average Rating: 7.8
Genres:
Duration :

overview : After narrowly escaping a bizarre accident, a troubled teenager is plagued by visions of a large bunny rabbit that manipulates …

7.5
Movie Name : Breaking the Waves
Release Date : 🕔 1996-07-05
Average Rating: 7.5
Genres:
Duration :

overview : In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can …

6.0
Movie Name : My Life Without Me
Release Date : 🕔 2003-03-07
Average Rating: 6.0
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A fatally ill mother with only two months to live creates a list of things she wants to do before …

7.1
Movie Name : Ariel
Release Date : 🕔 1988-10-21
Average Rating: 7.1
Genres:
Duration :

overview : After the coal mine he works at closes and his father commits suicide, a Finnish man leaves for the city …

8.471
Movie Name : Forrest Gump
Release Date : 🕔 1994-06-23
Average Rating: 8.471
Genres:
Duration :

overview : A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events—in …

8.016
Movie Name : American Beauty
Release Date : 🕔 1999-09-15
Average Rating: 8.016
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Lester Burnham, a depressed suburban father in a mid-life crisis, decides to turn his hectic life around after developing an …

7.3
Movie Name : Stolen Kisses
Release Date : 🕔 1968-09-04
Average Rating: 7.3
Genres:
Duration :

overview : The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged …

7.2
Movie Name : Antoine and Colette
Release Date : 🕔 1962-06-22
Average Rating: 7.2
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl …

5.3
Movie Name : Peut-être
Release Date : 🕔 1999-11-10
Average Rating: 5.3
Genres:
Duration :

overview : Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a …

5.8
Movie Name : After This Our Exile
Release Date : 🕔 2006-11-30
Average Rating: 5.8
Genres:
Duration :

overview : After his mother flees the family home, a son turns to thieving in order to support his father, an abusive …

Comments (0)