Everyone’s truly impressed by both Tod’s positivity and the sight of a 22 year-old John Travolta rolling around in gym shorts. When it looks like his suit might be malfunctioning, he runs into the plastic cell that’s been set up in the back of the classroom and strips it off while all of his classmates watch. When Tod finally convinces his parents to allow him to attend school, he does so while wearing a special protective outfit that makes him look like a cross between an old school astronaut and a demented teddy bear. It’s one of those films where the big dramatic moments are so overdone that they instead often become kind of comedic. It’s usually cited as being the epitome of 70s schmaltz and, indeed, it is very 70s and it is very schmaltzy. The Boy In The Plastic Bubble is one of those movies that has a reputation. As we all know, horses are totally germ-free. Gina loves to ride horses and Tod wants to ride one with her. But the girl next door, Gina (Glynnis O’Connor), finds herself falling in love with Tod and she wants to help him live a normal life. His doctor (Ralph Bellamy) says that there’s little chance that Tod’s condition will ever improve.
His parents (Robert Reed and Diana Hyland) are overprotective. But now, he’s in his teens and he wants to do teenager stuff. When Tod was a child, it wasn’t such a big deal not being able to leave his house without getting in a plastic ark beforehand. Tod was born without an immune system and, as a result, he’s had to spend his entire life in a germ-free, plastic bubble. This made-for-television film from 1976 tells the story of Tod Lubitch (played by a pre- Saturday Night Fever John Travolta).
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