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| Mental Illness: Major Films 
| Title | David and Lisa (1963) | | Alternative/Original Title | | | Disability | Mental (schizophrenia) | | Country | USA | | Length | 94 | | Genre | Romance | | Rating | 2 | | Director | Frank Perry
| | Cast | Keir Dullea Janet Margolin Howard da Silva
| | Notes | B/W. Two mentally disturbed teenagers find romance while living in a mental hospital. I remember enjoying this film when I was a teenager. I'm unsure I would now. I think I wouldn't be convinced by its story that love will 'cure' mental illness. A well meaning, independent production whose air of realism might now be seen as fantasy and somewhat pretentious. But the main characters are well acted. Remade as TV Film in 1998.
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