Permanent Record (film)

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

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 as his personal academic expectations and those of his parents become overwhelming, 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 receives 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 primarily deals with the profound effect the suicide has on his friends, and how they work through their grief (unlike many movies dealing with this subject, it is never revealed why David killed himself).

Soundtrack

The soundtrack featured five songs by Joe Strummer and the Latino Rockabilly War, as well as individual tracks...
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