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  David and Lisa - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
David and Lisa (1962) is a low-budget film directed by Frank Perry, often cited as one of his best works.
David and Lisa is also the title of a 1998 made-for-TV film starring Lukas Haas, Sidney Poitier, and Brittany Murphy.
Lisa appears to be cured and doesn't need to rhyme anymore, and David allows her to hold his hand on the way back.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/David_and_Lisa   (460 words)

  
 DVD Savant Review: David and Lisa
David and Lisa may not be a realistic study of disturbed kids, but it has firm belief in the essential goodness of progressive medicine and social service.
David and Lisa are the toughest cases, and when it comes down to it their problems seem to be more family-related than mental.
David and Lisa is worthy and valid as a drama, but unless the patients in Swinford's clinic are only meant to be mildly antisocial, it's a total fantasy.
www.dvdtalk.com /dvdsavant/s882lisa.html   (1588 words)

  
 Citrus: When David met Lisa: a complementary portrait
David and Lisa Cannon's move to Palm Bay to take over a ministry there is just the next step in a joint journey that began when they were in college.
Lisa: Believe it or not, David never took me out on a date when we were in our dating years, but we were hardly ever apart because we were always working together -- visiting children, bringing them to church, teaching the classes together, doing the youth group together.
David: It was kind of funny, we were starting to grow closer and closer and one day we were going home from church and I said, "You know you're going to have to marry me," and she says, "Well, you'll have to ask my dad." She didn't say no, and I really didn't ask.
www.sptimes.com /2003/02/15/Citrus/When_David_met_Lisa__.shtml   (885 words)

  
 David and Lisa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
David and Lisa is Frank Perry's moving film about severely emotionally disturbed youths who live in an institution overseen by understanding Doctor Swinford (Howard Da Silva).
David (Keir Dullea) is a 17 year old with a morbid horror of being touched.
Lisa (Janet Margolin) is a 15 year old schizophrenic who speaks in rhymes to ward off her other personality, Muriel.
www.classicsondvd.com /davidandlisa.htm   (292 words)

  
 JS Online: Owners like what they see
Lisa's career had been in computer management, but she now supplies the business background and helps with design.
On a late summer day, when just a hint of autumn could be found in the air and on the leaves, David and Lisa Moore talked with Entree editor Nancy Herrick about the three-bedroom, 4,500-square-foot home they share with their 6-year-old son.
David: And when we designed the staircase, we made sure our son's toy parachute could be dropped a full three stories, from the landing on the second floor down to the basement.
www.jsonline.com /entree/decorating/sep01/athome30092701.asp?format=print   (936 words)

  
 David and Lisa
Frank Perry's 1962 film David and Lisa is based on the book Lisa and David by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin about two disturbed teenagers in a residential treatment centre whose growing affection for each other begins to break down the limitations of their illness.
Lisa Brandt (Janet Margolin) is a schizophrenic who speaks only in singsong rhymes to avoid losing her identity to Muriel, her other self.
Through their friendship, David gains a measure of self-esteem denied to him by his family, amply demonstrated when he is taken home from the institution and is witness to nothing but parental bickering.
www.talkingpix.co.uk /ReviewsDavidAndLisa.html   (432 words)

  
 David and Lisa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Her closest friend in the ward is David, although it takes time for their friendship to develop.
David is extremely intelligent in math and physics, but is also obsessed with clocks.
Jordi, who is schizophrenic like Lisa, and sometimes copies her word-rhymes when they're together, depends completely on his "jiggler" to lead him around.
www.sonic.net /barny/lisaanddavid.html   (402 words)

  
 David Samuelson
David and Lisa Samuelson Family - Minneapolis, MN David samuelson was born 4-17-60 in St. Paul, MN of Connie Northup and adopted by Charles and Idella Samuelson on 5-16-60 of Thief River Falls, MN through Lutheran Social Services.
Lisa developed chronic sinusitus from the smog and the dry air so we moved back to God's country in 1990.
Lisa gave up Pediatric Occupational Therapy (Registered 8-18-88) to raise the family, and has 5 more years of that until her next career.
www.northupfamily.com /Genealogy/davids.html   (418 words)

  
 DVD Talk Review: David and Lisa
David and Lisa was a minor art-house sensation in its time, a sleeper of an independent film that the critics who showered with praise.
David and Lisa may not be a very realistic study of disturbed kids, but it has firm belief in the essential goodness of progressive medicine and social service.
The film's fantasy ending implies that David and Lisa are going to be all right, giving the impression that mental illness is an emotional misunderstanding that can be fixed by improved communication.
www.dvdtalk.com /reviews/read.php?ID=6795   (1555 words)

  
 Talkin' Broadway Regional News & Reviews: Los Angeles - "David and Lisa" - 4/8/02   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
To watch David and Lisa is to be transported back to a time when troubled kids were shunted off to special schools, where medical professionals believed that if the kids only trusted them enough to talk about their problems, they could take the first step on the road to recovery.
Lisa's alternate personality, Muriel, communicates only in writing, but she does not always turn her tablet to the audience, so we sometimes miss her words.
His David is so highly-functioning, he initially does not appear to be a candidate for medical intervention at all, and certainly not requiring placement in a special school.
www.talkinbroadway.com /regional/la/la46.html   (637 words)

  
 GreenCine | product main - David and Lisa (1962)
Dullea is David Clemens, who is placed in the home by his mother because of his constant fear of being touched.
Margolin is Lisa, a 15-year-old schizophrenic who speaks only in rhyme, when she speaks at all.
David rejects the help of psychiatrist Alan Swinford (Howard Da Silva) but makes an emotional connection with Lisa.
www.greencine.com /webCatalog?id=612   (308 words)

  
 David & Lisa
One of the highlights of the trip was spending time with family, many of whom Lisa hasn’t met (or only met on our wedding day).
Lisa found her new best friend on the trip (Katie).
Lisa will be updating that area frequently so be sure to check back often.
david-lisa.org   (1139 words)

  
 FHHS DramaGroup Takes on David and Lisa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
PRESS RELEASE: The fast-paced drama, "David and Lisa", by James Reach, will be presented by the Friday Harbor High School DramaGroup at San Juan Community Theatre, Thursday through Saturday, Jan. 29-31, at 7:30 p.m., and Sunday, Feb., 1 at 2:00 p.m.
David is the only son of wealthy parents, overprotected by a dominating mother and deathly afraid of human contact.
Lisa is the wild child who has never known parental love, and who hides within two personalities a six-year-old child who speaks in rhymes and a sedate, calm adult, removed from the chaos of her surroundings.
www.sanjuanislander.com /theatre/high_school_plays/davidandlisa.shtml   (299 words)

  
 Amazon.ca: David And Lisa: DVD   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Based on a case history by Dr. Theodore Isaac Rubin, David and Lisa was a low-budget winner, scoring big with audiences in a genre (psychodrama) that rarely produces successful results.
It is the story of two teenagers, David and Lisa, who are both in a home for mentally ill teens.
David is obsessed with clocks and has a fear of being physically touched while Lisa can only speak in rhyme.
www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00000IREB   (662 words)

  
 David and Lisa DVD - Michael Weise Productions   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Keir Dullea is great playing David, sort of like the boy James Dean played in REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, with similar issues around his mom and dad, but without the sexual magnetism.
The performances are wonderful, with Keir Dullea's David struggling unsuccessfully to conceal his terror beneath a calm, self-assured, even arrogant facade; and Janet Margolin's glowing Lisa, her big dark eyes conveying fragility, yearning, loneliness & a glimmer of hope with astonishing depth.
I don't think the statue that Lisa climbs onto is actually part of their collection.
www.mwp.com /shop/dvd.php4?asin=B00000IREB   (726 words)

  
 Pasadena homes for sale, CA
Whether it was ink on paper or pixels on a monitor, Lisa won and maintained business in the millions of dollars by combining her aesthetic sensibilities, strategic thinking and program management with a true understanding of her client's objectives and customer needs.
Lisa received her Master's degree from Yale University and Bachelor's degree from Art Center College of Design, located here in Pasadena.
David started his real estate career as a Mortgage Broker, as a way to buy his first home.
www.kelseyashworth.com /personalinfo.html   (318 words)

  
 David and Lisa
"David and Lisa" is a touching portrayal of adolescent psychosis and love for the first time.
Keir Dullea is fine as David, the youth with OCD, though I thought him a little mature for the role and a little Brooks Brothers.
Janet Margolin is a revelation as Lisa, the child-like teenage schizophrenic.
www.dvdvan.com /info/B00000IREB/David_and_Lisa.html   (941 words)

  
 CD Baby: DAVID SIMONS AND LISA KARRER: The Birth of George
David Simons and Lisa Karrer began creating their opera "The Birth of George" in 1995.
David and Lisa also perform their own compositions for Indonesian Gamelan, Homemade Instruments, Asian and Western ensembles, voice and electromics, and arrangements of other deconstructed world musics.
David was awarded two NY Foundation for the Arts Composition Fellowship ('90, 2000); Harvestworks Artist-In-Residence ('95,'89); Canada Council Visiting Foreign Artist ('92) for sound installation at Art Metropole in Toronto; Composer-in-Residence at American Dance Festival ('91); ASCAP Special Awards (1987-02); and several Meet the Composer commissions.
www.cdbaby.com /cd/dsalk   (919 words)

  
 David Levinthal - Lisa Sette Gallery
David Levinthal was among the first photographers of his generation to elaborate an aesthetic of fabrication rather than realism.
For more than twenty years he has arranged toy figures in studio-constructed situations that mimic and cast doubt on representations of contemporary myths and icons.
Created in soft focus to blur the distinction between still life and action shot, the characters reveal themselves only through movement, their hidden faces and clear, broad gestures reiterating the stoic philosophy of the Western.
www.lisasettegallery.com /artistsI-O/levinthal.htm   (109 words)

  
 David and Lisa Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
This stark and spare look at the world of the mentally disturbed was one of the beacons of the new American independent film movement.
Because of his contact with Lisa, David eventually opens up to Swinford and his mother.
Home life, however, consists of his mother's domineering ways and parental quarrels, so David runs away and returns to the home for disturbed youngsters.
www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/49/1649/features.php   (247 words)

  
 Playcrafters of Skippack presents David and Lisa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
His parents – an overbearing mother and disappointed father – send him to a school for psychologically damaged teens, and this is where David meets Lisa.
Lisa is an endearing child-like girl who barely acknowledges reality.
Speaking in rhyme, she charms David and the connection brings each one out of their own troubled view of the world.
www.playcrafters.org /david.htm   (109 words)

  
 David and Lisa (1962)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
But when she touches the piece to the head of the boy it is clearly a queen.
Janet Margolin,(Lisa Brandt),"Annie Hall",'77, was another mentally disturbed young girl, pretty and seemed to glow when she looked at David.
Howard Da Silva,(Dr. Swinford),"The Great Gatsby",'74 was the shrink in charge of the mental facility and had a full time job just trying to get David and Lisa to open up their twisted and disturbed minds.
us.imdb.com /title/tt0055892   (398 words)

  
 David & Lisa - VHS, Laserdisc, DVD : Info, Customer Reviews & Bargain Prices : Shopzilla
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.
www.shopzilla.com /9L--David_and_Lisa_-_cat_id--5104__prod_id--2004179   (457 words)

  
 Amazon.com: David & Lisa (2006) : Video   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Young David, played by future "2001: A Space Odyssey" astronaut Keir Dullea, is, you might say, wound tighter than a cheap watch.
Lisa's complete honesty reaches David in ways that are unpredictable and compelling, and his relationship with his parents and his psychiatrist are equally deep and interesting.
I happened to catch in on the satellite channel Trio, and if you, like me, really enjoy seeing something well done that's very different from the standard fare, I very, very highly recommend "David and Lisa," and the critics of its time were very complimentary too.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/6300140946?v=glance   (452 words)

  
 David and Lisa (1998) (TV)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Plot Summary: Lukas Haas portays David, a withdrawn but apparent near genius, who fears being touched.
David look at me. Who do you see?
David: I see a girl, who looks like a pearl.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0164013   (216 words)

  
 FaithfulReader.com - HAPPILY REMARRIED by David and Lisa Frisbie
With nearly sixty percent of remarriages ending in divorce, it seems unlikely that any textual discussion on this tread-lightly topic could be deemed as positive.
Yet authors David and Lisa Frisbie accomplish this unlikely task most successfully.
Given that about 90 million people in the United States are now living in a stepfamily, divorce and remarriage are no longer "fringe" societal patterns.
www.faithfulreader.com /reviews/0736915303.asp   (590 words)

  
 Movie Info for David and Lisa on MSN Movies
Oprah Winfrey co-produced this psychological drama, a TV movie remake of the acclaimed fl-and-white low-budget ($180,000) 1962 David and Lisa.
Emotionally disturbed teenager David (Lukas Haas), a genius with a fear of being touched, is taken by his mother to an institution where he encounters compassionate psychiatrist, Dr. Jack Miller (Sidney Poitier) and free-spirited teen Lisa (Brittany Murphy), who speaks in rhyme.
Although Miller makes a supreme effort with David, it's Lisa who succeeds in reaching out to David and making contact with him, quelling his demons with love.
entertainment.msn.com /movies/movie.aspx?m=61486   (207 words)

  
 The Official David M. Lisa Blog   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Here is the (nearly) entire list of those references, courtesy of the fine folks at Blizzplanet.
Here we see Neq taking a break from all of that questing and spending a quiet afternoon fishing at the Stagnant Oasis in The Barrens.
David Lisa is a librarian and popular culture fanatic living in New Jersey.
davidmlisa.blogspot.com   (509 words)

  
 DVD Empire - Item - David And Lisa / DVD-Video
David is a 17-year old who lives in constant fear of being physically touched.
Lisa is a 15-year old schizophrenic who only speaks in rhyme, when she speaks at all.
Eventually, the two form an emotional bond that leads to a profoundly moving climax.
www.dvdempire.com /Exec/v4_item.asp?item_id=5760&partner_id=29346865   (98 words)

  
 David and Lisa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-04)
Lisa, as we embark on this journey together, I promise to be with you always - forsaking all others for your companionship.
I will love you and remain with you whether we live in lavicious richer or abject poverty.
Lisa, we will not spend one lifetime together, but a million.
www.whitevine.net   (208 words)

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