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Mood:
- EmotionalGloomySincere
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Plot:
- Split PersonalityPsychologicalTeenage LoveMental IllnessLove and RomanceMind and SoulMisfitYouth more...
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Genres:
- DramaRomanceIndependent
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Time/Period:
- 50s60s
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Place:
- Mental Institution
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Based on:
- Based on Book
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Attitudes:
- SeriousRealisticSlow
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Look:
- B&W
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David and Lisa, 1962
English
USA
Profile of David and Lisa
David and Lisa can be described as emotional, gloomy, and sincere. The plot revolves around a character with a split personality, mental illness, and teenage love. The main genres are drama, independent, and romance. In approach, David and Lisa is serious and realistic. The storytelling is slow paced. It is set, at least in part, in a mental institution. David and Lisa takes place in the 1950s and in the 1960s. Visually, it is black and white. It is based on a book.
Summary of David and Lisa
Directed by Frank Perry (THE SWIMMER) and based on a nonfiction story by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, this movie was a bona fide independent hit at the time of its 1962 release. Rich performances, unusual frankness for its day, and David's disturbing dream sequences--rendered in Leonard Hirschfield's stark black-and-white photography--also created strong word-of-mouth interest in the film.
Seventeen-year-old David (Keir Dullea) suffers from a violent fear of being touched. When his mother (Neva Patterson) takes him to an institution for teenagers, he is angry and distrustful of both the doctors and his fellow patients, even calm and thoughtful Dr. Swinford (Howard Da Silva), who tries to help him. However, David has a breakthrough when he begins communicating with Lisa (Janet Margolin), a pretty 15-year-old schizophrenic who talks in childlike rhymes. Their friendship is mutually beneficial, and when David's parents decide that he should return home, he realizes that he has gained a sense of belonging at the institution and is reluctant to leave. Meanwhile, while David is away, Lisa demonstrates in her own alarming way how much his influence means to her.
Details
| Language: | English |
| Country: | USA |
| Release date: | 26 December 1962 |
| Runtime: | 95 min |
Cast and Crew
as David Clemens
as Lisa Brandt
as Dr. Swinford
