David & Lisa
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DVD Details
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: November 23, 2020
- Originally Released: 1962
- Label: Reel Vault
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Keir Dullea & Janet Margolin | |
Performer: | Howard Da Silva, Neva Patterson, Clifton James, Richard McMurray & Karen Lynn Gorney | |
Directed by | Frank Perry | |
Screenplay by | Eleanor Perry | |
Produced by | Paul M. Heller |
Entertainment Reviews:
Rating: 2.5/5 --
It's not a bad time, but it's talky and more than a little pedantic. And Dullea looks like the oldest teen on earth.
Filmcritic.com
Rating: 3.5/5 --
The understated charm of David and Lisa is what set the movie apart from so many other attempts at depicting the problems of the mentally ill.
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TV Guide
... strong performances and sensitive direction create a moving drama...
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MSN.com
The result is a memorable debut for Eleanor Perry, who wrote the intelligent script, and for her husband Frank, who directed it with discretion and vitality.
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Maclean's Magazine
Rating: 4/5 --
Margolin and Dullea are two underrated actors who are brilliant in this 'love at the mental home' movie
Atlantic City Weekly
Rating: 4/5 --
[Frank Perry] has done a simple, commendable, sympathetic semi-documentary.
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New York Times
Rating: B+ --
Frank Perry's soft, romanticized look at two misfits in an asylumn, played by the attractive Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin, this early indie film became a campus favorite in the 1960s and led the way to the rise of independent cinema in the 1970s.
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EmanuelLevy.Com
Product Description:
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.
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.
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- Sales Rank: 5,103
- UPC: 644827465224
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