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.

I remember seeing just the very end of this movie on TV, probably over 20 years ago now.  There was a teenage boy who seemed to have been forced to wear mechanical bird wings, and he was flying around inside a circus tent (I think).  He had to keep flapping to stay up and he was crying.  Finally, he gets too tired and crashes into the ground and dies.  That was the very end of the movie.