Back sometime in the 80’s (mid-80’s?), I remember seeing a made-for-tv movie with a title something like Wish Boy or Wish Child. As far as I can remember, it was about an alien or some kind of genetically different child.
I don’t remember any of the actors. The only scenes I remember about it were a scene near the beginning when a man (who is friends with the wish boy or maybe the guy who found him?) is driving with a woman, and the woman gets freaked out for a moment when she realizes there’s this little weird dude in the car with them. Then the man reassures her that he’s friendly.
The other scene I remember was from maybe the climax of the movie. The little wish boy is standing in a warehouse or something, waiting for the bad guys to approach. He’s holding two wires behind his back, and at the right moment, he touches them and makes a big explosion.
I’ve been wondering about this for decades. Thanks.
Oooh! I was looking for this too, for many years, and I started to think I imagined it. I thought I’d never find it. He looked like a creepy teletubby with big round eyes. I kept googling movies that were E.T. ripoffs, but I kept getting Mac and Me, and some others, and then I found it by accident. It is. . .
“Wishman”(1983 TV movie)
Here is the IMDb page for this failed TV pilot.
http://m.imdb.com/title/tt0424569/?ref_=fn_al_tt_2
I was so close, yet so far off. I would never have imagined he was a MAN. haha. Thanks so much!
All I can find online is this YouTube video of failed sci-fi TV pilots. It has a few clips showing the ‘wishman’.
https://youtu.be/at4TWrBy8og
That’s it. Oh man, it was so much cooler in my memory. Thanks for the link.
Thanks coffeebot3000. Yeah, it didn’t look as good to me either, but for a cheesy E.T. knockoff, it looks better than Mac and Me.
Solved!