Movie
Permanent Midnight
Overview
Juggling increasing career success and a growing heroin habit, a television comedy writer attempts to go down a path of improvement.
Details
- Release date
- 1998-09-16
- Runtime
- 88 min
- Genres
- Drama
- Status
- Released
- Production
- Artisan Entertainment, JD Productions
- Country
- United States of America
- Original language
- EN
Cast
- Ben Stiller as Jerry Stahl
- Elizabeth Hurley as Sandra
- Maria Bello as Kitty
- Owen Wilson as Nicky
- Lourdes Benedicto as Vola
- Peter Greene as Gus
- Cheryl Ladd as Pamela Verlaine
- Fred Willard as Craig Ziffer
- Charles Fleischer as Allen from Mr. Chompers
- Janeane Garofalo as Jana Farmer
- Connie Nielsen as Dagmar
- Sandra Oh as Friend
Crew
- David Veloz - Director
- David Veloz - Writer
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