Film Club: "Running On Empty"

Director: Sidney Lumet
Rated: PG-13
Runtime: 116 minutes

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. The couple moves around the country with their two sons — young Harry (Jonas Abry) and his older teenage brother, Danny (River Phoenix). On the verge of adulthood, Danny longs to set out on his own and live a more stable life, but he knows this could mean permanent separation from his family.