Permanent Midnight (1998)

Regisseur:

David Veloz

Drehbuchautoren (WGA):

Jerry Stahl (book)
David Veloz (screenplay)

Premierendatum:

16. September 1998 (USA)

Genre:

Biographie | Komödie | Drama | Romanze

Plot:

Comedy writer Jerry Stahl (Ben Stiller), whose $6000-a-week heroin habit had him taking his infant daughter...

Plot Keywords:

Baby | Drug Addict | Drug Addiction | Actress | Drug Rehabilitation

Filmpreise:

1 nomination

Nutzerkommentare:

For Any Fan of Drug Films, Fast-Paced Stylized Biographies, and Ben Stiller

Besetzung

Ben Stiller	...	Jerry Stahl
Maria Bello	...	Kitty
Jay Paulson	...	Phoenix Punk
Spencer Garrett	...	Brad / Tim from Mr. Chompers
Owen Wilson	...	Nicky
Elizabeth Hurley	...	Sandra
Lourdes Benedicto	...	Vola
Fred Willard	...	Craig Ziffer
Chauncey Leopardi	...	Jerry at 16
Mary Thompson	...	Grandma Whittle
Connie Nielsen	...	Dagmar
Charles Fleischer	...	Allen from Mr. Chompers
Liz Torres	...	Dita
Douglas Spain	...	Miguel
Janeane Garofalo	...	Jana Farmer

Alternativ:

Permanent Midnight - Voll auf Droge (Deutschland) [de]

MPAA:

Rated R for pervasive graphic drug use, strong sexuality and language.

Länge:

88 Min

Produktionsland:

USA

Sprache:

Englisch

Farbe:

Farbe (DeLuxe)

Seitenverhältnis:

1.85 : 1

Tonverfahren:

Dolby Digital | SDDS

Altersfreigabe:

Iceland:16 | UK:18 | USA:R | Australia:MA | New Zealand:R18

Drehorte:

Los Angeles, California, USA

Firma:

JD Productions

Pannen:

Audio-Visuelle Asynchronität: When Jerry is at the methadone clinic, the doctor is checking boxes on a form he's filling out. The questions he asks Jerry do not match the boxes he checks.

Dialogzitate:

Dita: Aw, Jerry, you didn't have to do that.
Jerry: No that's all right, I'm Jewish, I never get to do this kind of stuff.
Dita's son: You never had a Christmas tree? Why?!

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Soundtrack:

GODSPEED

For Any Fan of Drug Films, Fast-Paced Stylized Biographies, and Ben Stiller

Permanent Midnight seems at first like another film you will love. It's the story of a drug- addicted real-life semi-celebrity, it's directed with slick style and a fast pace, and it provokes emotion with its increasingly gloomy atmosphere and R-rated subject matter. The "but" or the "however" is hard to place, because there is no real reason why it can't live up to the expectations based on what I just described. The only real way to say why it isn't the contemporary classic or young moviegoer's classic that it should be is to say that it doesn't have as much intensity that one would expect from it. It allows itself to indulge in the formula elements of a movie like this.

There are formula elements to every genre and subgenre, even the fast-paced stylized biopic and the drug film, even though they don't seem like they would. Why would they? They're usually based on true stories and real lives, or they go in directions most other films don't take. Still, a real life and a true story can still either turn out the way so many similar ones do, or their adaptations do. Permanent Midnight is a formula film of its subgenre.

That doesn't stop it from being enjoyable and powerful on a substantial level. It's directed well and Stiller's performance is fantastic. It's loaded with dark humor, Scorsesian music placement and jump cuts disguised as techno music and fade outs, and attention-grabbing supporting players like Owen Wilson and Maria Bello. If only its storytelling took another avenue, or if only it were tighter and more extensive.