Permanent Record
United States
1988
91 Min
Color
1.85:1
English
Synopsis
High school student David Sinclair (Alan Boyce) has it all: looks, charm, popularity, excellent grades, a promising future. So why does David abruptly commit suicide? As the shock waves of the boy’s death reverberate through the halls of his school, the other students—particularly David’s best friend Chris (Keanu Reeves)—ask themselves if they, too, are capable of self-destruction. As for the adults, David’s suicide is one more of a myriad of mysteries concerning “Generation X” (though it was not yet so labelled in 1988). While the film offers no easy answers, either for the characters or the audience, Permanent Record ultimately demonstrates that there are ways to cope with the pressures of life other than taking one’s own life. An added bonus: the teenagers in the film act like genuine teenagers, not like TV sitcom wisecrackers or oversexed cretins. —AMC Movie Guide
Director
Marisa Silver
Marisa Silver (April 23, 1960 – ) is an American author, screenwriter and film director.
Silver was born in Shaker Heights, Ohio, to Raphael Silver, a film director and producer, and Joan Micklin Silver, a director.
Marisa Silver directed her first film, Old Enough, while she studied at Harvard University. The film won the Grand Jury Prize at Sundance in 1984, when Silver was 23. Silver went on to direct three more feature films, Permanent Record (1988), with Keanu Reeves, Vital Signs (1990) and He Said, She Said (1991), with Kevin Bacon and Elizabeth Perkins. The latter was co-directed with her husband-to-be, Ken Kwapis.
After making her career in Hollywood, she switched her profession and entered graduate school to become a short story writer. Her first short story appeared in The New Yorker magazine in 2000 and subsequently several more stories have been published there.
Silver published the short-story collection, Babe in Paradise, in 2001.That collection… read more
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