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  • 2018
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2018
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m

Summary Anna (Rebecca Hall) and Will (Dan Stevens), were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The...

Directed By: Brian Crano

Written By: Brian Crano

  • 2018
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m
  • 2018
  • Good Deed Entertainment
  • 1 h 36 m

Permission

Metascore Generally Favorable Based on 15 Critic Reviews
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User Score Generally Favorable Based on 8 User Ratings
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Summary Anna (Rebecca Hall) and Will (Dan Stevens), were each other’s first every-things: first kiss, first love, first and only relationship. Now, 10 years in, at Anna’s 30th birthday party, as Will is about to propose, the couple’s best friend makes a drunken toast, suggesting that they should sleep around before their inevitable marriage. The...

Directed By: Brian Crano

Written By: Brian Crano

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90
Feb 8, 2018
Permission asks difficult questions and doesn't offer easy answers. But while it deals with heavy relationship issues including the validity of monogamy, it manages an easy, seemingly effortless humor that seduces the audience while simultaneously breaking filmgoers' hearts.
By Kimber Myers FULL REVIEW
75
Feb 9, 2018
What is most unexpected about Permission is its sense of poignancy and tenderness. In its own way, it's quite heartbreaking.
By Sheila O'Malley FULL REVIEW

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38% Mixed
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13% Negative
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70
Feb 8, 2018
Every now and then you run across a film in which a really talented cast takes a crack at a well-worn genre entry. For the most part, that’s what Permission is, though writer and director Brian Crano tosses in a couple of wrinkles.
By Bill Goodykoontz FULL REVIEW
70
Feb 5, 2018
Almost everything about Permission feels flighty and parochial when laid beside the fateful mire of “Loveless,” yet Hall, in particular, lends a sober grace to the erotic roundelay.
By Anthony Lane FULL REVIEW
63
Feb 8, 2018
Ultimately, the film becomes a love letter to Hall, and that's what saves it. She's such a beautiful, prickly, intelligent, singular presence that you root for Anna, no matter how many questionable choices she and the film make.
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50
Feb 8, 2018
This earnest, deadly serious character study has few moments of levity, mostly provided by an arch Gina Gershon, still as intoxicating and seductive as she was in Bound.
By Serena Donadoni FULL REVIEW
40
Feb 6, 2018
Trafficking in familiar themes, Permission ultimately doesn't have anything very new to say about them.
By Frank Scheck FULL REVIEW
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Production Company Ball & Chain Productions, Circadian Pictures, Paper Trail, Picture Films
Release Date Feb 9, 2018
Duration 1 h 36 m
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Tagline How can you be certain he is the one, if he is the only one?
Website http://www.pnwpictures.com/films/permission
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