Permanent Record

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This article refers to the movie. For the compilation album by "Weird Al" Yankovic, see Permanent Record: Al in the Box.

Permanent Record
Theatrical release poster
Directed by	Marisa Silver
Produced by	Frank Mancuso Jr.
Written by	Jarre Fees Larry Ketron Alice Liddle
Starring	Jennifer Rubin Keanu Reeves Pamela Gidley
Music by	Joe Strummer
Cinematography	Frederick Elmes
Editing by	Robert Brown
Distributed by	Paramount Pictures
Release date(s)	April 22, 1988
Running time	91 min
Country	United States
Language	English
IMDb profile

Permanent Record is a 1988 American drama film starring Keanu Reeves, Alan Boyce and Jennifer Rubin. It was filmed on location in Portland and Cannon Beach, Oregon.

1 Plot Summary
2 Soundtrack
3 External links
4 Tagline

[edit] Plot Summary

David (Alan Boyce) seems to have everything. He is smart,talented, funny and popular. He is best friends with Chris (Keanu Reeves), a quirky outsider. He seems to have it all together, yet his personal academic expectations and those of his parents become overwhelming,though he keeps his problems to himself. At a party with his school friends along the coast, he takes a walk to the edge of a cliff overlooking the ocean. Chris, playful as ever, decides to sneak up on his friend, but when he emerges from behind a rock, David is not there. He has fallen to his death. Originally assumed to be a horrible accident, the situation changes when Chris recieves a suicide note in the mail. Chris and David's girlfriend Lauren (Jennifer Rubin) want to hold some type of memorial, but a reluctant school decides against it, leaving the kids to memorialize their friend in their own way. The movie ptimarily deals with the profound effect the suicide has on his friends, and how they work through their grief.