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The Boy Who Could Fly

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The Boy Who Could Fly	comment	The Boy Who Could Fly is a 1986 film directed and written by Nick Castle.Amelia "Milly" Michaelson (Lucy Deakins) and her family have had a tough year. Her father has passed away, causing them to move to a new neighborhood. Milly and her brother Louis (Fred Savage) have a rough time adjusting to their new schools and their mom Charlene's (Bonnie Bedelia) return to the workforce has her working with a computer that she can't figure out.Milly soon meets her neighbor Eric Gibb (Jay Underwood), an autistic young boy living with an alcoholic uncle named Hugo (Fred Gwynne). He never socializes with others, hasn't spoken at all, and sometimes raises his arms in the air to pretend to be an airplane, since his parents died in a plane crash. As soon as the two meet, Eric and Milly warm up to each other and become fast friends. However, with Hugo's alcoholism and Eric's strange behavior, Eric could be taken away to a hospital at any moment. Furthermore, a couple of strange incidents makes Milly start to believe that Eric might really have the ability to fly...
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_2c25dfd7	comment	Suicidal "Gotcha!": Sort of. When Eric and Milly find themselves cornered at a rooftop by the mental hospital people, they jump off together... and then they start actually flying.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_40cc0c7e	type	Bittersweet Ending
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_40cc0c7e	comment	Bittersweet Ending: Eric flies away and disappears, and Milly stays while living her life and waiting for his return. In the meantime Louis stands up to his bullies, Charlene adapts herself to work, Max recovers from his injuries, and Uncle Hugo stops drinking. But the last scene all but states that Eric comes back to her.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_41be2c1b	comment	Spoiler Title: The "amazing secret" in the tagline is that Eric can fly.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_454b2f2b	type	Secretly Dying
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_454b2f2b	comment	Secretly Dying: Milly and Louis' father kept his condition secret from them and their mother because he didn't want them to worry. But instead of seeking treatment, he took his own life and the family's livelihood began to spiral downward from there.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_4d97e2b9	type	Urine Trouble
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_4d97e2b9	comment	Urine Trouble: Louis defeats the neighborhood bully with a squirt gun full of piss.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_6339e2bd	type	Disabled Love Interest
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_6339e2bd	comment	Disabled Love Interest: Eric, for Milly.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_6bda9a30	type	Meaningful Name
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_6bda9a30	comment	Meaningful Name: Milly's real name is Amelia. In a movie about flight. On top of this, Milly was also Nick Castle's mother's name.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_6d332aea	type	Driven to Suicide
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_6d332aea	comment	Driven to Suicide: It's revealed that Milly and Louis's father did not die from cancer, but killed himself shortly after the diagnosis.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_71e514b5	type	Don't Try This at Home
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_71e514b5	comment	Don't Try This at Home: A disclaimer stressing this was shown before its airings on the Disney Channel.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_735dd172	type	Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_735dd172	comment	Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: In a, uh, way...
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_73d1a356	type	The Noun Who Verbed
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_73d1a356	comment	The Noun Who Verbed: The title.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_8071d6ed	comment	Alcoholic Parent: Uncle Hugo is Eric's guardian, but he constantly drinks and this has caused him to lose guardianship over Eric a couple of times.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_8409a385	type	Exactly What It Says on the Tin
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_8409a385	comment	Exactly What It Says on the Tin: Most of the movie is based on whether or not it's true, or a metaphor. Turns out, there's nothing metaphorical about it.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_85e7c12f	type	Puppy-Dog Eyes
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_85e7c12f	comment	Puppy-Dog Eyes: Eric and Milly's sad-puppy faces would be right at home in an ASPCA advert.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_8b4f2a4f	comment	'80s Hair: All over the place, but Milly especially.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_8ec0abf	type	The Voiceless
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_8ec0abf	comment	The Voiceless: Due to his refusal to socialize with others, Eric never speaks. The first actual words he says are his Love Confession to Milly.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_9dd2af4a	type	Inspirationally Disadvantaged
The Boy Who Could Fly / int_9dd2af4a	comment	Inspirationally Disadvantaged: Eric is autistic, but in many ways, he's the Manic Pixie Dream Girl to Milly. Oh, yeah, and that flying thing isn't some derangement, but an actual superpower that triggers eventually.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_9e0b9695	comment	Flight: Played with, as to whether Eric can fly or not. He can.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_a6cda066	comment	Rule of Three: Louis attempts to drive his tricycle around the block three times throughout the film, and all three times he encounters and is chased by bullies. The first time, he barely manages to get away, the second time they get him and beat the crap out of him, the third time Louis arms himself to the (G-rated) teeth and gives them what-for.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_b489805d	comment	Hollywood Autism: Eric, starting with the obvious fact that it somehow gave him superpowers.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_bb0f28ce	comment	Stock Shoujo Bullying Tactics: Eric is ignored at school and Louis is attacked by local boys.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_dcd29760	comment	They Would Cut You Up: After Eric disappears, Milly and Uncle Hugo and their families are all taken by the government and experimented on for a while to see if there's something in them that can say how Eric got his flying powers. Aside from an extended period of annoyance until they're let go, nothing bad comes from it.
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The Boy Who Could Fly / int_eb81c601	comment	Big Damn Heroes: Louis's dog, Max, chasing off one of the neighborhood bullies dog is one of the most triumphant examples of this trope.
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