A fatherless boy who just lost his mother "creates" an imaginary friend who comforts him. He is placed under the care of his mother's foster sister, who is a busy woman and is not enthusiastic about her new duties.
This is a fairly bad film, an ideological signpost of an era which, having lost its faith in the Great institutions, and systems of ethics, metaphysics, politics, etc., retained their "believing" element and placed it in an "anything goes" superstructure. Of course this kind of trend is not altogether new in cinematic narrative: Miracle on 34th Street was released in 1947 (yes, blame it on post-WWII angst) and, certainly not by sheer coincidence, remade only two years before Bogus' release. This film's apparent anticapitalist message (centered on the foster mother, a workaholic businesswoman) is actually pro-capitalist when you think that for Capitalism to work it must balance production and consumption; all it's saying is "Relax, take some time off, spend some money, if not with yourself, then with your kid."
Rating: 14
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