Running On Empty

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(thing) by girlotron (2.2 y) (print) ? I like it! Thu Jan 11 2001 at 0:00:01

The title of an excellent 1988 film by Sidney Lumet about the Popes (played by Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch), who've been living on the run after protest-bombing a napalm factory during the Vietnam war. For years they've had to move and change identities on a regular basis. Meanwhile, their eldest son Danny (River Phoenix) is growing up and wants to be a musician. He's offered a course of study - and also falls in love - but staying in the town will result in imprisonment for his parents..
Typically for Lumet the characterisation and acting are brilliant, and the politics intelligently handled. It's thoughtful and tender without sentimentality, and well worth seeing.

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Jackson Browne	River Phoenix	Running on fumes	Martha Plimpton
Christine Lahti	Runners, yeah, we're different	The Runner	Dr. Supper
autoeroticism	The evolution of a runner	June 29, 2005	Ned Flanders
Ghost in the Shell	Edgar Allan Poe	Championship Manager 4	The Beatles (The White Album)
Beatles for Sale	The Mediation of Technology and Gender: Metropolis, Nazism, Modernism	Doctor My Eyes	I'm such a small thing and the sky is so big
Sidney Lumet	Vietnam	Dear Willa (from Portland)	5-HTP

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