Anna (Rebecca Hall) and Will (Dan Stevens), were each other's first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna's 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple's best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The joke lands like a lead balloon, but the thought lingers until Anna proposes that they try opening their relationship--as a sexual experiment. Together, they venture out of the purely monogamous boundaries of their relationship and, along the way, evolve.
16 September 1988, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
18 September 1975, Fairfax, Virginia, USA
10 June 1962, Los Angeles, California, USA
3 May 1982, London, England, UK
5 July 1985, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
21 April 1972, Manhattan, Kansas, USA
10 October 1982, Croydon, Surrey, England, UK
1977, McAllen, Texas, USA
February 09, 2018
Strong performances and an interesting premise combine to make Permission an entertaining adult romance.
February 08, 2018
Stevens and Hall are always interesting to watch. (In fact, you should watch him in "The Guest" and her in "The Awakening," if you want to see two excellent, lesser-known films.)
February 08, 2018
Ms. Hall ... is the standout, selling Anna's indecision even through some of the script's dubious patches.
February 09, 2018
You kind of want to slap everybody in Permission, and that's kind of the point.
February 07, 2018
[Hall and Stevens'] glowing performances are contained in a wan road-not-taken drama.
February 08, 2018
... it works best as a tale about what communication errors to avoid when pursuing an open relationship.
February 08, 2018
It's a bittersweet note to compliment the messy, endlessly complicated profile Crano constructs around his leads.
February 08, 2018
Permission offers a novel spin on its romantic-comedy premise, exploring the idea that people can do stupid things with the best intentions.
February 08, 2018
... the concept of this indie rom-com, which-like most promises made in haste and on the cheap-doesn't quite deliver in the end.
February 08, 2018
When Crano digs into the psychological muck with this premise, he's generally far more effective a storyteller than when he relies on cliché.
February 08, 2018
While it deals with heavy relationship issues including the validity of monogamy, it manages an easy, seemingly effortless humor that seduces the audience while simultaneously breaking filmgoers' hearts.
February 06, 2018
An unconvincing treatment of familiar themes.
