David and Lisa

Diva Zappa

Sidney Poitier

Lukas Haas

Brittany Murphy

Debi Mazar

Allison Janney

Kim Murphy

Giuseppe Andrews

Vicellous Reon Shannon

Gene Wolande

Kimiko Gelman

Giselle deCerda

Samaria Graham

Ty Hodges

Phil Hawn

Jim Jenkins

Josiah Polhemus

How does the movie end?

When David reprimands Lisa for interrupting Natalie's (Kim Murphy) piano playing by toying with the metronome, Lisa runs away. Dr Miller has the police looking for her, but David thinks she may have gone to the museum to be near her favorite sculpture. He and Miller drive over and find Lisa asleep on the steps, waiting for the museum to open. David wakes her up, and Lisa says, 'You were nice to Natalie, and you were mean to me.' David notices that, for the first time, Lisa is not attempting to rhyme. Also for the first time, David reaches out his hand to Lisa and tells her to take hold of it. In the final scene, David and Lisa walk hand-in-hand to Dr Miller's car.

Is 'David and Lisa' based on a book?

Yes. David and Lisa is a remake of David and Lisa (1962), both of which were based on the 1960 novel Lisa and David by American psychiatrist and author Theodore Isaac Rubin, M.D. The original screenplay for the 1962 movie was written by American screenwriter Eleanor Perry and adapted for this TV movie by Perry, Rubin, and Lloyd Kramer.

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