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Running on Empty (1988)

Name: Running on Empty
Director: Sidney Lumet
Genre: drama film, coming-of-age film
Duration: 116 min
Rating: 7.6

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. It is the story of a counterculture couple on the run from the FBI, and how one of their sons starts to break out of this fugitive lifestyle. It marked the second time that Phoenix and Plimpton…

Directed by Sidney Lumet · Shot by Gerry Fisher · Cut by Andrew Mondshein · Music by Tony Mottola · 116 min

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The Death Of Socrates — 1955
12 Angry Men — 1957
Stage Struck — 1958
Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates — 1958
The Fugitive Kind — 1959
That Kind of Woman — 1959
The Iceman Cometh — 1960
Long Day's Journey into Night — 1962
A View from the Bridge — 1962
The Pawnbroker — 1964
Fail-Safe — 1964
The Hill — 1965
The Deadly Affair — 1966
The Group — 1966
The Sea Gull — 1968
Bye Bye Braverman — 1968
The Appointment — 1969
King: A Filmed Record... Montgomery to Memphis — 1970
Last of the Mobile Hot Shots — 1970
The Anderson Tapes — 1971
Child's Play — 1972
The Offence — 1973
Serpico — 1973
Murder on the Orient Express — 1974
Lovin' Molly — 1974
Dog Day Afternoon — 1975
Network — 1976
Equus — 1977
The Wiz — 1978
Just Tell Me What You Want — 1980

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