The Boy in the Plastic Bubble Shines a Spotlight on a Young John Travolta Diana Hyland won a posthumous prize for her depiction of Mickey Lubitch. Most of the film was shot at Malibu Lake.

"I always feel she is with me," John Travolta told PEOPLE in 1977 ... alongside Travolta as his mother in 1976's The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. She had had a mastectomy two years before her ...

In 1976 ABC televised a John Travolta made-for-television drama called The Boy in the Plastic Bubble. Travolta's character, Tod Lubitch, was a composite of David and Ted DeVita, a Washington ...