Juan Jose Campanella Dam Love (Harley Cross) was a kid they could do nothing with: a case history of failure in preppie schools and confinement in posh loony bins.  He calls his mother "bitch". Screenwriter Catherine May Levin calls Dan "a Manson in the making," but Juan Jose Campanella, director of "The Boy Who Cried Bitch", disagrees.  "This isn't a slasher movie. Two things go on here.  The mother isn't well.  Then there is a glamorization of the absent parent 'a Moroccan prince,' and the devaluation of the parent who has to cope with the nitty-gritty." Even to his brothers Dan is trouble.  He manipulates Jim, the school maintenance man (Gene Canfield), who has whetted his interest in guns.  Jim freaks out outside the girls' dorm and Dan winds up in the diagnostic ward of a private hospital. "The hospital scenes were filmed in Creedmoore,:" says Campanella.  My research was mainly done at the New York Psychiatric Hospital where I consulted Dr.  Clarisse Kastenbaum, one of the country's leading expert on child psychology.  She helped cast the kids." Dan makes friends in the institution: Jessica (Moira Kelly) and Eddie (Adrien Brody) who get messages from a character named Sergeant Bill.  "No matter what I tried to do with all the potential Eddies, the Sergeant Bill scene never worked.  Adrien came in and you could have shot the scene there.  The only problem was that he is early two heads taller than Harley, yet Harley must dominate him." Glassy-eyed Eddie is a perfect foil for Dan's malevolence.  Can Bad Seed Harley really be the sweet-faced angel who played Tom Berenger's son in Someone To Watch Over me? (Other credits include The Believers and Stanley And Iris).  Jessica and Dan steal a car and with Hawaiian War Chant whoops, head for Honolulu.  They don't make it.  There's a heartbreaking Christmas dinner at the institution and a superb scene in Grand Central Station, where shadowy homeless contrast with a Westchester party, attended by Dan and his brothers. As N.Y.U. film school graduate and a film student in the desaperecito days in Argentina, Campanella is a supreme realist.  He treats tweleve0year-old Harley as an intellectual equal.  They trade opinions of Truffaut.  It is to Campanella's credit that he refuses to give a hopeful spin to Dan's story.  No psychobabble.  No bear hugs.  No one says, "Love you, Mom." He quotes Harley "It's a sad state of affairs, that The Silence Of the Lambs is called 'the most disturbing picture of the year.' "  For every Hannibal Lecter there are probably ten flesh-and-blood Dans lost in "the system."