Permanent Vacation

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Permanent Vacation is a 1980 drama film directed, written and produced by Jim Jarmusch. It was the director's first release, and was shot on 16 mm film shortly after he dropped out of film school. This film is often credited as the birth of the director's original style, and character schemes. The main character, played by Chris Parker, wanders around a dingy New York atmosphere and is confronted by a number of intriguing characters as he ponders... more
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Jim Jarmusch

James R. "Jim" Jarmusch (pronounced /ˈdʒɑrməʃ/; born January 22, 1953) is an American independent filmmaker. Jarmusch is a major exponent of independent cinema, particularly that of the 1980s and 1990s. Jarmusch was born to a European American family of middle-class suburbanites in Cuyahoga Falls,...

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