Willy/Milly [SEP] director
Willy/Milly
Something Special (also known as Willy/Milly and I Was a Teenage Boy) is a 1986 comedic fantasy film directed by Paul Schneider, based upon a story by the same name by Alan H. Friedman. The film follows the title character of Milly Niceman, a young tomboy who is unhappy with the traditional expectations for her gender and longs to become a boy so she can act however she wants. Initially released as "I Was a Teenage Boy" in 1986, the film was later re-
- Robin Jackson as Witch
Reception.
Critical reception for "Willy/Milly" was mixed to negative and the "Providence Journal" commented that the film could have worked it if had been "played for hilarious farce a la Tootsie, or as an examination of the psychological traumas that [Milly]/Willy undergoes". The "Sun-Sentinel" panned the film as "so shallow, boring and half-baked that one wonders if anyone looked at the finished product before distribution". The "Daily News of Los