Permanent Vacation Details

Permanent Vacation

Jim Jarmusch made his directorial debut with this episodic profile of one troubled hipster trying to make sense of his life. Aloysius Parker (Christopher Parker), known to his friends as Allie, is a young man with a damaged family background (his mother is in a mental institution and his father has gone missing) and an inability to sleep, causing him to dream while he's awake. After a troubling encounter with his girlfriend (Leila Gastil) and a frustrating visit with his mother, Allie drifts through a strangely under-populated New York City, crossing paths with a sharp-suited street musicians (John Lurie), a middle-aged jazz fan (Frankie Faison), a disturbed Latin woman (Maria Duval) and a popcorn girl at a movie theater (Lisa Rosen) who's fascinated with Eskimos. A chance encounter with a woman with a vintage Ford Mustang gives Allie the opportunity to escape the chaos around him. While Permanent Vacation made the rounds of European film festivals after its completion in 1980, it was all but ignored in the United States, and it wasn't until Jarmusch released Stranger Than Paradise in 1984 that his star began to rise on the independent film scene.~ Mark Deming, All Movie Guide

Starring	Charlie Spademan, Jane Fire, Ruth Bolton, Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie, Richard Boes, Eszter Balint, Richard Edson, Cecillia Stark, Danny Rosen, Tom DiCillo, Tom Waits, Robert Benigni, Ellen Barkan
Director	Jim Jarmusch
Studio	ELEVATION
Certificate
Genres	Action/Adventure, Thriller
Language	DVD: English
Released	Production year: 1980 To Rent: DVD: 12 May 2008