Permanent

Permanent (2017) is a dry family comedy you can watch online on iFILM, set in small-town Virginia in 1983. A thirteen-year-old moves with her parents to an unfamiliar place and immediately runs into every kind of trouble: new school, hostile classmates, and parents who are quietly falling apart themselves.

Then comes the home perm. The result is so spectacular that any chance of blending in evaporates overnight. Rainn Wilson and Patricia Arquette play the parents — equally adrift, equally oblivious to how bad things look from the outside. Writer-director Colette Burson keeps the tone gentle and a little melancholy, which is exactly what makes it land.

Watch Permanent (2017) online on iFILM.