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Permanent (film)
''Permanent'' is a 2017 American comedy film written and directed by Colette Burson and starring Patricia Arquette and Rainn Wilson. Plot The film is set in the early 1980s in small town Virginia. Aurelie is the new girl in town, having recently relocated from Washington D.C. with her parents Jim (a former steward for Air Force One) and Jeanne. Jim is attending college on a scholarship to become a physician while Jeanne, now the breadwinner, works at the local chicken shack. Aurelie asks her parents if she can have a permanent to fit in with the "Farrah Fawcett" types in town. Her parents finally relent and take her to a local beauty school to get her hair processed at a discount. The result is disastrous, making Aurelie look more like orphan Annie than Farrah. She starts school and is immediately teased by everyone. She tries to befriend the only black girl in school, Lydia, but is rebuffed. Aurelie furthers her unpopularity by overly participating in class and is frequently bulli ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Colette Burson
Colette Burson (born June 22, 1970) is an American television writer, screenwriter, producer and director. She is the creator, executive producer and showrunner of the HBO television show, ''Hung''. In 2021 she is adapting the best selling novel ''The Growing Season'' by Sarah Frey for ABC, as well as writing the limited series ''Love Canal'' for Showtime, directed by Patricia Arquette. Past work on shows includes '' Los Espookys'' for HBO and '' The Riches'' for FX. She is also the writer and director of the 2017 film ''Permanent''. Early life and education Burson grew up in Abingdon, Virginia. She attended the University of Virginia, majoring in rhetoric and French, and went on to receive her MFA in dramatic writing from New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. Career Burson was a founding member of the theater company the Playwrights Collective, working at the company from 1991 until 1999, along with Kate Robin, Eduardo Machado, Lucy Thurber, Dan Rybicky, Jennif ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
