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Apr 25, 1984 · Permanent Vacation: Directed by Jim Jarmusch. With Chris Parker, Leila Gastil, John Lurie, Richard Boes. A young man wanders New York City searching for some meaning in life and encounters many idiosyncratic characters.
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- Comedy, Drama
- Jim Jarmusch
- 1984-04-25
Permanent Vacation is a 1980 film directed, written and produced by Jim Jarmusch. It was the director's first release, and was shot on 16 mm film shortly after he dropped out of film school.
Permanent Vacation is a 1980 film directed, written and produced by Jim Jarmusch. It was the director's first release, and was shot on 16 mm film shortly after he dropped out of film school. This film is often credited as the birth of the director's original style and character schemes.
- Jim Jarmusch
Jim Jarmusch's 16mm feature debut, made not long after the writer/director graduated from film school, is an oblique study of a young man (Parker) adrift on the streets of New York. As he roams, he has chance encounters with a car thief, a saxophone player and a grizzled war veteran, among others.
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- Jim Jarmusch
- Not Rated
Sep 12, 2014 · Permanent Vacation, the 1980 feature-length debut from American auteur Jim Jarmusch, is possibly the most directionless entry in a filmography defined by lyrical aimlessness, and is almost certainly the director’s least seen and celebrated work.
A drifter (Chris Parker) wanders Manhattan searching for purpose and meaning, seeing his girlfriend (Leila Gastil) and meeting strangers.
- Comedy, Drama
A postcard from New York's fabled days of grime and crime, a distant memory before gentrification took away the tainted lifeblood of the city. Nowadays feels more like a permanent vacation in a tourist trap.
