PERMANENT is a comedy about bad hair, adolescence, and socially awkward family members. It involves life-altering permanents and poorly made toupees. Obstacles to daily survival ensue.
It's not without its charms; they just tend to be suffocated by bad wig jokes, distracting wardrobe choices and Craig Wedren's invasively cutesy score.
Arquette is charmingly endearing as the frustrated Jeanne, Wilson movingly conveys his character's vulnerability as well as his bluster and McLean is terrific as the beleaguered young girl desperate to have a mane like Farrah Fawcett's.
