David and Lisa

David and Lisa

7.2IMDb Score
Released:1962-12-26
Duration:95 min
Director:Frank Perry
Actors:Keir Dullea, Janet Margolin, Howard Da Silva, Neva Patterson, Clifton James
Production:Vision Associates Productions, Lisa and David Company

Overview:

Teenager David Clemens develops a hysterical fear that he will die if he comes into physical contact with another person. Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist. Over time, however, David grows interested in 15-year-old Lisa, who suffers from multiple personalities – one who can only speak in rhyme, and the other, a mute.

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