In this family drama from director Sidney Lumet, Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti play Arthur and Annie Pope, a pair of '60s radicals who have eluded the FBI for 16 years after bombing a napalm laboratory as a Vietnam War protest. This lifestyle involves continually moving their base of operations ...more
MPAA Rating: PG13 | Year: 1988 | Running Time: 116 minutes
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$8.99RUNNING ON EMPTY (1988)
Danny is falling in love with Lorna Phillips, the daughter of the local music teacher. As Danny and Lorna walk along the beach, he is incapable of walking next to her. He keeps running ahead, because running is what he has been forced to do his entire life. His family has been underground since his parents' college days when they caused the death of an innocent bystander during the bombing of a college building. The film deals with the very real emotional pain the family experiences when Danny ...more
- Christine Lahti - Annie Pope
- River Phoenix - Danny Pope
- Judd Hirsch - Arthur Pope
- Martha Plimpton - Lorna Phillips
- Jonas Abry - Haprry Pope
- Michael Boatman - Spaulding
- Elzbieta Czyzewska - Julliard Woman
- Daniel Dassin - Waiter
- Ronnie Gilbert - Mrs. Taylor
- Bobo Lewis - Home Ec Teacher
- Jenny Lumet - Music Girl
- William Foeller - Man at Meeting
- Leila Danette - Maid
- Carol Cavallo - Woman at Meeting
- Sidney Lumet - Director
- Burtt Harris - Executive Producer
- Naomi Foner - Producer
- Burtt Harris - Producer
- Naomi Foner - Screenwriter
- Robert Guerra - Art Director
- Todd Thaler - Casting
- Griffin Dunne - Co-producer
- Amy Robinson - Co-producer
- Anna Hill Johnstone - Costume Designer
- Burtt Harris - First Assistant Director
- Andrew Mondshein - Editor
- Tony Mottola - Composer (Music Score)
- Toy Russell - Makeup











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