The Boy Who Could Fly
PG · 1986 ‧ Family/Fantasy ‧ 1h 54m
Kindly adolescent Milly (Lucy Deakins) moves in next door to autistic teen Eric Gibb (Jay Underwood). The mute Eric, whose parents were killed when he was 5 years old, lives with his hard-drinking uncle, Hugo (Fred Gwynne), and is obsessed with...
Initial release: August 15, 1986
Director: Nick Castle
Distributed by: Warner Bros. and 20th Century Studios
Budget: $9 million
Music by: Bruce Broughton
Production company: Lorimar Motion Pictures
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An autistic boy who dreams of flying touches everyone he meets, including a new family who has moved in after their father dies.An autistic boy who dreams ...
The film stars Lucy Deakins as 14-year-old Milly Michaelson, Jay Underwood as Eric Gibb, a boy with autism, Bonnie Bedelia as Milly's mother, Fred Savage as ...