The result is a memorable debut for Eleanor Perry, who wrote the intelligent script, and for her husband Frank, who directed it with discretion and vitality.

David [and Lisa], for all its deficiencies (among which is not casting), is dramatic, it moves.

Deeply touching.

The understated charm of David and Lisa is what set the movie apart from so many other attempts at depicting the problems of the mentally ill.

... strong performances and sensitive direction create a moving drama...

Frank Perry's soft, romanticized look at two misfits in an asylumn, played by the attractive Keir Dullea and Janet Margolin, this early indie film became a campus favorite in the 1960s and led the way to the rise of independent cinema in the 1970s.

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

Margolin and Dullea are two underrated actors who are brilliant in this 'love at the mental home' movie

It's not a bad time, but it's talky and more than a little pedantic. And Dullea looks like the oldest teen on earth.

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