Tobi

Plot synopsis:
Tobi and his parents, Jacinto and María López, are at a picnic. Back home, Tobi begins feeling strange itches on his back and is brought to the hospital for an evaluation. The next day, Tobi's parents learn that a pair of wings have grown from the itchy spots on his back. The hospital separates Tobi and his parents, but they can watch him through a one-way window. The doctors cannot explain why Tobi grew the wings and Jacinto, concerned about his son’s future, asks the doctors to remove them surgically. María is upset, and says that she wants Tobi back with or without his wings.
Tobi asks his nurse Lucy for his parents, and she says he will see them soon. Disappointed and lonely, he escapes from the clinic with no clothing. Tobi hides in a garbage pail, which two workers load into a truck. He escapes, hiding in a box which is brought into a store, and blends in with the mannequins. An employee hears Tobi sneeze, but the boy remains still and is not discovered. He begins to play tricks, kicking the employee and hiding again. The employee finds Tobi, the only "mannequin" who is anatomically accurate, and flees in a panic. Tobi runs away from the store, heading home through the city. He wants to see his mother and asks a drunk man (who thinks he is hallucinating) for help. A passer-by sees Tobi talking to the drunk man, takes photographs and gives them to the media.
Back home, Tobi and his parents hear a doctor say on television that the clinic should study him further; the doctors consider him to be Homo angelicus, rather than Homo sapiens. In a crowd outside their house, Professor Jourdain unsuccessfully tries to convince Tobi’s parents to return him to the clinic. To satisfy the crowd, his mother picks Tobi up and shows them his wings. Jacinto befriends media worker Marla Sullivan, who makes him offers he refuses because his son is not for sale. She then offers Jacinto a better job, which he accepts. Tobi reluctantly appears in a deodorant commercial, ruining every scene and angering the director. After he works all day, Tobi’s mother takes him home without finishing the commercial. She makes him a cover for his wings for him to wear to school.
When a classmate pulls Tobi's wings, their teacher seats Tobi apart from the others to protect him. He stays in the classroom during recess to avoid the other boys, and becomes friends with a little girl. Tobi shows her his wings, and is seen by another classmate who tells his friends; the group demands that Tobi show them his wings. Maria is summoned to school and told that Tobi’s presence is a distraction to the other students. When, back home, he begins having nightmares he has his wings removed. Tobi is discharged from the hospital to continued media attention, Marla Sullivan tells Jacinto that he is liable for breach of contract. Maria brings Tobi to the park, where he again feels an itch on his back. When Marla hears on the news that Tobi’s wings have grown back, she exhibits him at a carnival as "Tobi, the boy with wings". The boy escapes, climbing to the top of a tower; he flies away, leaving the crowd (and his parents) behind.

Tags: psychedelic

Review:
The boy with wings. I remember watching this movie when I was a kid and it left me a very strange feeling. The parents of a small boy, Tobi, discover that a couple of angel wings are growing  on his sun.The fantastic storyline is developed into a quite sad and melodramatic script that tries to avoid all the characteristics of the fantastic genre, showing the reality of everyday life. The whole thing works quite well delivering a strange, uncomfortable atmosphere. I remember it as a sad film, specially the end scene.. I finally found it!. I loved this movie as a child, and I wish I can see it again... I remember watching this movie as a child too, in Argetina... I saw it many, many times with my mother. This movie is about a very cute boy, around the age of 6-8 and one day grows angel wings, no one was able to explain it... I remember the mother taking him to see doctors and then they placed him in exhibition or something similar for people to see him, I can not remember that very well... but I do remember a scene where is looking at a bunny and the bunny looks back at him and moves with nose... the boy imitates the movement of the bunny... I can't remember how the movie ended but I remember that it was a very sad ending. I have been wanting to watch this movie for a very long time but I could never find any information on it. I remember my mother telling me it was from Spain.. About the movie!!. That was an excellent movie, it was really great,I think it was a master piece in foraging movies, you don't get to see that many movies with that kind of dialog on it, the way the plot was done and how the characters where played, they keep you at the edge and thinking about what is going to happened, especially when includes something that you think is not possible but is there in front of you, on the screen, and makes you think about life itself and wonders, I was maybe like 9 or 10 when I watched this movie with my mother and it make me cry, I have been looking for this movie for so long and I was lucky to find it right here, thank you very much for this site, keep up the good work....