Aurelie, 13, dreams about getting a perm so that she can finally fit in at her small-town Virginia school. Things soon go incredibly wrong when her clueless parents bring her to a beauty school to save a few bucks.
4 November 1933, San Francisco, California, USA
28 August 1981, Richmond, Virginia, USA
8 April 1968, Chicago, Illinois, USA
23 April 2003, Chesterfield, Virginia, USA
20 January 1966, Seattle, Washington, USA
1967, Hickory, North Carolina, USA
December 17, 2017
It's not without its charms; they just tend to be suffocated by bad wig jokes, distracting wardrobe choices and Craig Wedren's invasively cutesy score.
December 15, 2017
Permanent feels like a short film stretched to feature length. It never quite rises above the level of its premise.
December 18, 2017
Arquette is charmingly endearing as the frustrated Jeanne, Wilson movingly conveys his character's vulnerability as well as his bluster and McLean is terrific as the beleaguered young girl desperate to have a mane like Farrah Fawcett's.
December 15, 2017
Mild language, absurd violence in coming-of-age comedy.
December 17, 2017
As Auralie, Ms. McLean is appealing and fresh-faced and could do well in a better coming-of-age movie in a few years.
November 18, 2017
Uneven but quirky and often spot-on spoof of the hell of having bad hair in high school
