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David and Lisa

An unusual love story!

1962 · 1h 35m · N/A Drama, Romance
Directed by Frank Perry

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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 Perturbed, David's overbearing mother places him in a home for mentally disturbed young people, but David remains withdrawn from the other patients and his psychiatrist.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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80%
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Fresh

[Frank Perry] has done a simple, commendable, sympathetic semi-documentary.

Bosley Crowther, New York Times
Rotten

Probably not everything it was cracked up to be in 1963.

Jonathan Rosenbaum, Chicago Reader
Fresh

Deeply touching.

TIME Magazine

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