Obscure Blue Barrel Boy - story at 11

October 24, 2005 10:19 PM

I'm trying to locate a movie I saw when I was a wee lad. It involved an unborn child (I believe) coming to Earth (I believe) in a blue barrel (I'm positive) and being raised by human parents. I thought it was D.A.R.Y.L., but I was wrong. Any thoughts?

We watched it all the time in summer camp, and I totally need to see it since I watched Follow that Bird, Flight of the Navigator, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure and Short Circuit. What a great camp...

posted by hoborg to media & arts (9 comments total)

hmm...
posted by rafter at 10:44 PM on October 24, 2005

Sounds like the Wonderworks production of Konrad (originally a book), to me.
posted by redfoxtail at 10:46 PM on October 24, 2005

I remember watching D.A.R.Y.L. as a kid too!
posted by defreckled at 1:03 AM on October 25, 2005

Definitely not D.A.R.Y.L.

I recall (and was actually going to post an AskMe about) a movie where an older woman received in the mail a barrel (possibly it was blue) with a young (perhaps seven years old) boy inside. She had to pour some sort of liquid or powder (from a pouch) into the barrel to "revive" him. She complains to some kind of authority (the shipping company?) that she ordered shampoo, or something, not a little boy.

(Looking at redfoxtail's reply, actually, I'm almost positive that I'm thinking of Konrad. Hooray!)
posted by neckro23 at 2:09 AM on October 25, 2005

neckro23, you're definitely thinking of Konrad. And the barrel in Konrad was blue, so I'm betting hoborg is too. (Yeah, watched a LOT of Wonderworks growing up.)

And Follow That Bird is GREAT!
posted by fuzzbean at 5:17 AM on October 25, 2005

I'm with Rafter on this one. Are you sure it wasn't Superman?
posted by jdroth at 7:13 AM on October 25, 2005

Hard to confuse a crystalline "star" ship with a blue barrel.
posted by vanoakenfold at 8:05 AM on October 25, 2005

Good point.
posted by jdroth at 8:12 AM on October 25, 2005

Thanks so much! My sister and I were going NUTS figuring this one out. I'll buy you a beer next time you're in < lukeedwardsvoice> California < /lukeedwardsvoice>.

I love ask.mefi
posted by hoborg at 4:52 PM on October 25, 2005