SPOILERS. Melissa Gilbert (23) is Dr. Lisa DaVito. For reasons that are never clear to the viewing audience, she works beyond reasonable efforts to salvage Freddie ( Fernando López ). He has some problems from the past which results in a hair-trigger temper. He goes off sometimes on very small things and becomes violent. I must give credit to Lopez, his character is very menacing. I would not have wanted to get him angry.
Dr. Lisa is his shrink, and works with him diligently to get him to talk about his past, and develop into someone who can live in society. After a set time, her supervisor, Dr. Butler (Lane Smith) pressures her into signing him out of the clinic. He almost loses it while trying to get a job, and finally works as a dish washer. With a very insensitive boss (perhaps unrealistically insensitive), who rides him for working too slowly, and blames him for a customer returning food because of a dirty plate, Freddie loses it, picks up a large butcher knife, and kills the man. Police looking for him, Dr. Lisa finds him, he almost kills her, before leaving her alone, to be chased by the police. He was too young to die, but that was his only destiny at that point.
Woody Harrelson, before he became famous, played her doctor sidekick and friend. "B" grade movie.
Dr. Lisa is his shrink, and works with him diligently to get him to talk about his past, and develop into someone who can live in society. After a set time, her supervisor, Dr. Butler (Lane Smith) pressures her into signing him out of the clinic. He almost loses it while trying to get a job, and finally works as a dish washer. With a very insensitive boss (perhaps unrealistically insensitive), who rides him for working too slowly, and blames him for a customer returning food because of a dirty plate, Freddie loses it, picks up a large butcher knife, and kills the man. Police looking for him, Dr. Lisa finds him, he almost kills her, before leaving her alone, to be chased by the police. He was too young to die, but that was his only destiny at that point.
Woody Harrelson, before he became famous, played her doctor sidekick and friend. "B" grade movie.