Permanent Midnight (3 stars)

With Permanent Midnight Ben Stiller leaps into dramatic mode, and portrays real-life TV writer Jerry Stahl. Stahl moves to LA so that he can pursue his writing career and get away from drugs. His career takes off as he becomes the head writer for the sitcom "ALF", but he certainly can't get away from the drugs. He is an avid heroin addict that also experiments with other drugs throughout the movie. The movie is about his spiral downward and his attempts to pull himself out.

The movie is not groundbreaking, heroin and drug addiction has been handled many times before, but I thought Ben Stiller did an excellent job playing the highs and lows of a man that was slowly losing his mind to drug addiction. The scene where he shoots up in a car with his baby daughter sitting next to him is down right creepy. Overall it was worth the watch and I would reccommend it, but I doubt I'd watch it again.