The Boy Who Could Fly

Hey, Do You Remember...?

Christopher Schrader

Tv & Film, Comedy

4.8 • 676 Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2020

⏱️ 93 minutes

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Summary

This one's probably a deep cut for some of our listeners, but there are probably just as many of you out there who remember when this was in constant rotation on The Disney Channel.

The Boy Who Could Fly has some surprisingly heavy subject matter considering its target demographic, but even more surprising is how effectively the film manages to hold all of that together. Thanks to some incredibly deft direction, what could have easily spun out into melodrama instead feels genuine and pretty darn heartwarming.

Topics include: the PSA that used to run before the movie and why that maybe wasn't the worst idea in the world, unintended consequences of action figure funerals, how seeing more of the kids at school could have streamlined and clarified certain plot points, what other powers Eric might secretly be harboring, and much more!

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0:00.0	Hey, do you remember the boy who could fly?
0:06.4	Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember? Hello and welcome to Hey Do You Remember, a show where we reminisce about a movie or TV series we grew up with, then take off the rose-tinted glasses to see how it holds up.
0:31.5	I'm Chris.
0:32.2	I'm Donna.
0:33.1	And I'm Carlos.
0:34.1	And today we're revisiting The Boy Who Could Fly.
0:53.0	Music I'm Carlos. And today we're revisiting the Boy Who Could Fly. Well, for me, this is one of those movies that was such an indelible part of my childhood that so many other people around my age seem to have never heard of.
1:02.4	And I'm sure everyone has their own list of stuff like this, especially when you've got a platform like this podcast where the whole point is plumbing the depths of your childhood and you're always
1:13.1	thinking about potential episodes. And I've got a whole list of these that Joe Dante movie
1:18.5	explorers about the kids who build a spaceship, lady in white, this cool little ghost story with
1:24.1	adorable 10-year-old Lucas Haas, the peanut butter solution, which I think is on Disney
1:29.6	Plus now. It's on one of the streaming sites. I just saw it. The made for TV, Ewok movies,
1:34.4	there's just so much of this. The stuff that I watched over and over as a kid that when I bring it up,
1:39.6	I frequently just get blank stares. And the boy who could fly, this is definitely one of those
1:45.8	movies. My own wife had never even heard of this. So even when I suggested this, I was like,
1:51.5	look, I'm sure I'm the only one who likes or even remembers this movie, but I'm just throwing it
1:56.9	out there. And I know this just came up on our Uncle Buck episode because Jay Underwood was in that.
2:03.0	But even still, I was surprised, Carlos, when you were like, oh, no, no, I watched this movie like a hundred times as a kid.
2:11.1	So we'll start with you. What do you remember about the boy who could fly?
2:15.8	Okay. I remember the exact first time I saw this, and it was on home video, and my mom was
2:22.4	going out, and she got a babysitter for us, and for some reason I was being, like, kind
2:28.6	of tantrum-y for some reason.
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