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FilmPG1986
The Boy Who Could Fly
Directed by Nick Castle
Milly and Louis, and their recently-widowed mom, Charlene, move to a new neighborhood. Once there, they all deal with a variety of personal problems, but Milly finds a friend in Eric, her autistic next door neighbor. Eric has a fascination with flight, and as the story progresses, he exerts an enthralling force of change on all those around him. From TMDB
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The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 drama family fantasy film, directed by Nick Castle, starring Lucy Deakins, Jay Underwood and Fred Savage.
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60 of 108 · most liked firstSounds kinda like The Boy Who Could Fly
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) dir. Nick Castle Another flying-themed 80s video rental nostalgia trip. This one was my sister's choice & I was none too happy about it. That is until we got home and watched it, & it became a favourite. Fred Savage drenching the bullies in piss was a highlight. #filmsky
positive · AI labelView post →Writer/Director Nick Castle’s fantasy drama ‘The Boy Who Could Fly’ starring Jay Underwood, Lucy Deakins, Bonnie Bedelia, Colleen Dewhurst, Fred Savage, Jason Priestley, and Fred Gwynne soared into theaters on this day forty years ago (August 15, 1986) 🎭 🌤️ 🏘️ #OTD
neutral · AI labelView post →Age verification? I could recite every line of The Boy Who Could Fly, Fight of the Navigator, and Short Circuit thanks to VHS having poor copy protection.
neutral · AI labelView post →#MusicChallenge #MusicSky #DetectiveSongs Day 26- Who? The Boy Who Could Fly- Pierce The Veil www.youtube.com/watch?v=psd2...
neutral · AI labelView post →Starting late! Hey, it's the boy from "The Boy Who Could Fly" except he's a man now!! 🤯 Guess he's not Peter Pan then! #FrightClub #Sleepstalker
neutral · AI labelView post →Jay Underwood, from The Boy Who Could Fly, also starred in another movie where he was an android. Alan Thicke was in it, and it was Computer Who Wore Tennis Shoes-ish.
neutral · AI labelView post →The kid from The Boy Who Could Fly and the doc from The Love Boat in a battle for the soul of America
neutral · AI labelView post →Post a movie from the 80s that starts with the letter B: ‘The Boy Who Could Fly’ (1986). 👍
neutral · AI labelView post →there was a bad movie called THE BOY WHO COULD FLY and the only thing i can remember about it is that a bullied kid gets his revenge by attacking his bullies with a water pistol full of piss
negative · AI labelView post →Happy Horror Birthday to the iconic Nick Castle, filmmaker and actor, famous for portraying Michael Myers in the original HALLOWEEN (1978), and directing THE LAST STARFIGHTER, THE BOY WHO COULD FLY, TAP, DENNIS THE MENACE, an episode of AMAZING STORIES, and more. He was #BOTD on 9/21/1947.
neutral · AI labelView post →TRIVIA: ‘The Boy Who Could Fly’ features the film debuts of Fred Savage and Jason Priestley. (IMDB) 🖤
neutral · AI labelView post →i see The Boy Who Could Fly! 😍
positive · AI labelView post →Okay I know knowing the title isn’t the point, but I am saddened by the lack of ‘The Boy Who Could Fly’ representation in the responses.
neutral · AI labelView post →"I want you to tell her something for me: She was super hot in Salem's Lot. AND The Boy Who Could Fly..." #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →The outro on The Boy Who Could Fly is everything
positive · AI labelView post →The Boy Who Could Fly. We were also defined by Sunday spaghetti westerns, and Kung Fu Theater. We thought all bad guys were uglier than the good guys, and every problem could be solved by shooting or kicking someone.
neutral · AI labelView post →I recently started watching the show Heroes. Which made me think of the movie The Boy Who Could Fly. Jesus Christ I’m old. I’m hoping I’m not the only elder millennial who remembers this movie.
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy Who Could Fly Romeo and Juliet (1968) Friday Donald in Mathmagicland Monty Python and the Holy Grail
neutral · AI labelView post →Today, I got to meet the legendary Nick Castle, the original Michael Myers, the co-writer of Escape From New York, the acclaimed director of TAG: The Assassination Game, The Last Starfighter, and The Boy Who Could Fly, and most importantly, the beach ball alien in Dark Star. Amazing day.
neutral · AI labelView post →Watch The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) To feel both bummed out and inspired at the same time
neutral · AI labelView post →#NowWatching STALKED (1994). It stars Maryam D’Abo (007: THE LIVING DAYLIGHTS), Tod Fennell (BRAINSCAN) and Jay Underwood (THE BOY WHO COULD FLY). #FirstWatch #FilmSky
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm just gonna go with a few I saw in class before I got to high school. THE KARATE KID FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF (on the last day of 6th grade. lol) THE BOY WHO COULD FLY
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy Who Could Fly is always gonna be my boy #respect #underwood #Sleepstalker #FrightClub
positive · AI labelView post →The Boy Who Could Fly Up in the Air Beyond the Stars
neutral · AI labelView post →Listening to "The Boy Who Could Fly" by Pierce The Veil rn
neutral · AI labelView post →Bonnie Bedelia. Been carrying that torch since The Boy Who Could Fly. I know. You'd think it'd be Milly, but I was a strange child. Salem's Lot blew my little mind. #FrightClub
neutral · AI labelView post →For me it was The Boy Who Loved Trolls, The Boy Who Could Fly, Flight of the Navigator and the Rainbow Brite episode/movie that contained this song: https://youtu.be/zPRWuegS8l8?si=OYJ3x4vSSyWg2eNO
neutral · AI labelView post →Bruce Broughton's The Boy Who Could Fly (1986).
neutral · AI labelView post →IIRC, she got this and The Boy Who Could Fly on the dance Beta tape
neutral · AI labelView post →He watched The Boy Who Could Fly while hopped up on Addies??
neutral · AI labelView post →i'm going through family films from the 80s on letterboxd and going through it, nostalgia-wise... i'd completely forgotten about The Boy Who Could Fly (1986)! i was obsessed with any story about a secret magic power
positive · AI labelView post →Watching The Boy Who Could Fly and these bullies make no sense. The kid wearing the anarchy symbol has a dog named Hitler. Pick a lane writers.
negative · AI labelView post →(This is an oddly pervasive trope in 80s movies - and specifically 80s kids' movies, which is even odder: Explorers, Flight of the Navigator, Back to the Future, The Boy Who Could Fly.
neutral · AI labelView post →My Camp Fire Boys and Girls group went to a special screening of the Disbey movie "The Boy Who Could Fly" in 1991 Instead the projectionist accidentally cued up the movie Rush and we watched a junkie jump off a building to his death 😬😵💫
neutral · AI labelView post →The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) has intensity of the dramatic variety. Its also a family movie. It also has a successful horror movie type scene. In a way, its kind of gothic. But its clear cut on the outside. So touching. And sad too.
positive · AI labelView post →Directed by Michael Myers himself Nick Castle who also directed The Last Starfighter and The Boy Who Could Fly, Major Payne,and Mr Wrong
neutral · AI labelView post →"The Boy Who Could Fly", Jesus Christ. Talk about a movie that just seemed to stop existing after, like, 1988.
negative · AI labelView post →I honestly think a lot of our talking heads - including people like Stock, and increasingly Uta Frith - are either struggling to move on from The Boy Who Could Fly or are being paid a serious chunk of money to pretend otherwise
neutral · AI labelView post →40 years ago today, The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) was released in theaters. #80s #80smovie
neutral · AI labelView post →What the…the guy who played Michael Meyers in Halloween directed The Last Starfighter and The Boy Who Could Fly. He also co-wrote Escape From New York
neutral · AI labelView post →The movie release of the pilot has a soundtrack CD of the Stu Phillips music. Intrada released two amazing multi-disc sets of the score from the show, some of which was written by future film composer Bruce Broughton (Silverado, Young Sherlock Holmes, The Boy Who Could Fly). Huge nostalgia listens.
neutral · AI labelView post →"Far from being a cautionary tale, even the most dire situation Lakki faces is laced with heightened ridiculousness. It plays like an ABC Afterschool Special, International Edition."--Shane Wilson (@shanewilson.bsky.social) on "Lakki... The Boy Who Could Fly" (1992)
neutral · AI labelView post →I'm still convinced that "The Boy Who Could Fly" isn't a real movie. (It is.) But I do have a movie that I swear I saw but clearly didn't and is, in fact, a memory hallucination about Wicket the Ewok in our world. Might be conflating with another movie I watched at the time.
neutral · AI labelView post →Okay fine! Howard The Duck Weird Science The Boy Who Could Fly Teen Wolf Once Bitten The Lost Boys Mannequin
neutral · AI labelView post →Disney Channel movie “Not Quite Human“, based on a book series. Had two sequels, with Jay Underwood (also from The Boy Who Could Fly) as Chip Carson, and Alan Thicke as his inventor/“dad”.
neutral · AI labelView post →Oh, are you trying to get us to guess the movie YOU saw? Here are my guesses: WarGames The Boy Who Could Fly The Peanut Butter Solution Not Quite Human Am I close?
neutral · AI labelView post →I Don’t Care if You’re Contagious and Bulletproof Love . . Bestios for Dazai & Akutagawa , The Boy Who Could Fly MAYBE for AkuAtsu or ChuuAtsu .
neutral · AI labelView post →20 soundtracks to get to know me. Day 12: The Boy Who Could Fly by Bruce Broughton. #20days20soundtracks #soundtracks #BruceBroughton #TheBoyWhoCouldFly
neutral · AI labelView post →Return to Oz (1985) , more than just those roller dudes The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) dream sequence Also those cloning effects from The Last Starfighter (1984)
neutral · AI labelView post →I want to talk about how Michael Myers from Halloween directed THE BOY WHO COULD FLY but you’re all just not ready for it.
positive · AI labelView post →The Boy Who Could Fly (1986) Is really intense for a family movie. Got some really deep eerie atmospheres in it. Its great at mystery
positive · AI labelView post →The amount of times I watched The Boy Who Could Fly as a kid is staggering
positive · AI labelView post →I learned about autism from the movie The Boy Who Could Fly (1986). Chiefly, I learned that autistic kids could fly.
positive · AI labelView post →‘The Boy Who Could Fly’ is good times.
positive · AI labelView post →Currently we have a tie between Somewhere In Time, The Boy Who Could Fly and The Sea Prince and the Fire Child!
neutral · AI labelView post →Halloween's Michael Myers and director of The Last Starfighter and The Boy Who Could Fly, Nick Castle was at the Hollywood Show in September 2025. He signed my UHD of The Last Starfighter as well. Very happy to have met him. Next week, we join the Dark Side, but not in the way you might expect.
neutral · AI labelView post →Happy 40th Anniversary To Both Manhunter, The Fly And The Boy Who Could Fly That Were Both First Released On This Date August 15th 1986 In Theaters
neutral · AI labelView post →I’ve got a copy of it but I’ve never gotten around to watching it. I always confuse it with The Boy Who Could Fly
neutral · AI labelView post →Ten non horror movies to get to know me Hook Network Office Space Idiocracy Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan Star Trek: First Contact So I Married An Axe Murderer On Her Majesty's Secret Service Blazing Saddles The Boy Who Could Fly
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