History Film / DavidAndLisa

* SuperOCD: David clearly has this.

David Clemens (Creator/KeirDullea) is a brilliant-but-troubled high school student, suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder so severe he's afraid that he'll die if [[HatesBeingTouched someone else touches him]]. His mother sends him to a residential treatment facility for teens, where he's placed under the care of understanding psychiatrist Dr. Alan Swinford (Howard Da Silva). David's anti-social nature and aloof personality leads most of the facility's other residents to leave him alone, but one other patient starts initiating contact with him: Lisa Brandt (Janet Margolin). Lisa is one of the home's most extreme cases. She suffers from heavy schizophrenia. She only [[RhymesOnADime talks in rhymes]], when she talks. Much of the time she transforms into Muriel, an alter ego who can only communicate through writing.

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''David and Lisa'' is a 1962 drama from the [[CreatorCouple husband-and-wife team]] of Frank Perry (director) and Eleanor Perry (writer), based on ''Lisa and David'', a story by psychiatrist Theodore Isaac Rubin inspired by actual patients.

David Clemens (Keir Dullea) is a brilliant-but-troubled high school student, suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder so severe he's afraid that he'll die if [[HatesBeingTouched someone else touches him]]. His mother sends him to a residential treatment facility for teens, where he's placed under the care of understanding psychiatrist Dr. Alan Swinford (Howard Da Silva). David's anti-social nature and aloof personality leads most of the facility's other residents to leave him alone, but one other patient starts initiating contact with him: Lisa Brandt (Janet Margolin). Lisa is one of the home's most extreme cases. She suffers from heavy schizophrenia. She only [[RhymesOnADime talks in rhymes]], when she talks. Much of the time she transforms into Muriel, an alter ego who can only communicate through writing.

* WiseBeyondTheirYears: David, who even confronts Lisa's therapist with his own treatment recommendations for her.

One of the first American independent films to garner both critical acclaim and financial success, ''David and Lisa'' earned Academy Award nominations for directing and screenplay, and brought overnight attention to Dullea and Margolin. It was later adapted into a stage play by James Reach, and in 1998 Creator/OprahWinfrey produced a made-for-TV remake starring Lukas Haas and Creator/BrittanyMurphy.

* TalkativeLoon: Lisa. The original story even uses the term "word salad" to describe some of her nonsensical rhyming (though she notably becomes more coherent when she starts talking to David).

David Clemens (Keir Dullea) is a brilliant-but-troubled high school student, suffering from an obsessive-compulsive disorder so severe he's afraid that he'll die if [[HatesBeingTouched someone else touches him]]. His mother sends him to a residential treatment facility for teens, where he's placed under the care of understanding psychiatrist Dr. Alan Swinford (Howard Da Silva). David's anti-social nature and aloof personality leads most of the facility's other residents to leave him alone, but one other patient starts initiating interactions with him: Lisa Brandt (Janet Margolin). Lisa is one of the home's most extreme cases. She suffers from heavy schizophrenia. She only [[RhymesOnADime talks in rhymes]], when she talks. Much of the time she transforms into Muriel, an alter ego who can only communicate through writing.

One of the first American independent films to garner both critical acclaim and financial success, ''David and Lisa'' earned Academy Award nominations for directing and screenplay, and brought overnight attention to Dullea and Margolin.