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Running on Empty is a 1988 American drama film directed by Sidney Lumet and written by Naomi Foner and starring River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti, and Martha Plimpton. It was produced by Lorimar Film Entertainment.
Sep 9, 1988 · Running on Empty: Directed by Sidney Lumet. With Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry. The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live his own life.
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- Crime, Drama, Music
- Sidney Lumet
- 1988-09-09
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Arthur Pope (Judd Hirsch) and his wife, Annie (Christine Lahti), are fugitives, perpetually on the run from federal authorities due to their antiwar activity during the 1960s.
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- Sidney Lumet
- PG-13
- Christine Lahti
Reviews. Running on Empty. 116 minutes ‧ PG-13 ‧ 1988. Roger Ebert. September 23, 1988. 5 min read. How do you explain it to your children, when you take the family dog and put it out into the street and say that it will surely find a home – and then you drive out of town, forever?
Feb 3, 2015 · Danny and Harry (River Phoenix, Jonas Abry) meet their parents (Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti) at what must be a fail-safe rendezvous, whereupon we learn that the cars outside their house were Feds, and they’re an experienced fugitive radical family, in Sidney Lumet’s.
The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind.