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PG13,1hr 56min
Genre:
Drama
Released:
January 1, 1988
Director:
Sidney Lumet
Distributor:
Warner Home Video
Starring:
Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch  ...more
Synopsis: 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 and establishing new identities, which is especially hard on their children, 18-year-old Danny (River Phoenix) and 10-year-old Harry (Jonas Abry), who can never amass a group of friends or an academic record. ... Full Synopsis
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Perry Seibert, AMG Review
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 ... Full Review
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Christine Lahti
Annie Pope
River Phoenix
Danny Pope
Judd Hirsch
Arthur Pope
Martha Plimpton
Lorna Phillips
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