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Permanent Midnight (1998)

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Reviews Counted:50

Fresh:30

Rotten:20

Average Rating:5.7/10

Consensus: Aimless storytelling undermines the gripping, unsettling subject of this film.

Runtime: 88 mins

Genre: Dramas

Synopsis: Based on the memoirs of Jerry Stahl, a successful TV writer who was reduced to working at a McDonalds' drive-thru window by his crippling addiction to heroin. Ben Stiller gives an acclaimed... Based on the memoirs of Jerry Stahl, a successful TV writer who was reduced to working at a McDonalds' drive-thru window by his crippling addiction to heroin. Ben Stiller gives an acclaimed performance as Stahl in this gritty film ripe with darkly comedic moments. Stahl himself has a cameo as a drug counselor. [More]

Starring: Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Elizabeth Hurley, Janeane Garofalo

Starring: Ben Stiller, Maria Bello, Elizabeth Hurley, Janeane Garofalo, Owen Wilson, Cheryl Ladd

Director: David Veloz

Director: David Veloz

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Feb 23, 1999

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Austin Chronicle

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BBC

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Brian J. Arthurs
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Thomas Delapa
Thomas Delapa
Boulder Weekly

Witty!

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Maitland McDonagh
Boxoffice Magazine

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Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer
Bryant Frazer's Deep Focus

The movie gets credit for not making the high life seem colorful or funny.

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Roger Ebert
Roger Ebert
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Margaret A. McGurk
Margaret A. McGurk
Cincinnati Enquirer

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Madeleine Williams
Madeleine Williams
Cinematter

Disjointed, uneven, unfocused, and hazy!

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Sandra Ramani
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Citysearch
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Paul Tatara
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Mark Palermo
Mark Palermo
Coast (Halifax, Nova Scotia)

A movie to slit your wrist to.

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Deseret News, Salt Lake City

Constant sequences of drug taking, one after the other, does not a good film make.

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