The Boy in the Plastic Bubble (1976)
Directed by Randal Kleiser
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.
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What critics compared The Boy in the Plastic Bubble to
Although the idea for Blair Hayes's Bubble Boy seems initially like a lame offshoot of the "bubble boy" episode of Seinfeld (which itself probably derived from the comically weepy 1976 TV movie The Boy In The Plastic Bubble starring a pre-Saturday Night Fever John Travolta in melodramatic overdrive), it is actually much different.
While no one has lived their entire life in a bubble since David Vetter - whose story inspired the TV movie "The Boy in the Plastic Bubble" with John Travolta - a certain stigma has remained attached to the condition, leading to the now famous/infamous "Bubble Boy" episode of TV's "Seinfeld."
In the U.S., however, this tacky make-a-wish fantasy is merely the latest addition to that odd subgenre of terminal-teen romance — from “Love Story” to “The Boy in the Plastic Bubble” — in which a case of puppy love between a pair of preternaturally beautiful young people is rudely interrupted by the Grim Reaper.