Perfect Lives

Perfect Lives

7.5IMDb Score
Released:1984-02-16
Duration:175 min
Director:John Sanborn
Actors:Robert Ashley, “Blue” Gene Tyranny, Jill Kroesen, David Van Tieghem
Production:The Kitchen, Channel 4 Television

Overview:

Set in the American Midwest, Perfect Lives is “about” bank robbery, cocktail lounges, geriatric love, adolescent elopement, the changing of the light at sundown, et al. One of the definitive text-sound compositions of the late 20th century, it has been called "the most influential music/theater/literary work of the 1980s".

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