Directed by:
Sidney LumetScreenplay:
Naomi FonerCinematography:
Gerry FisherComposer:
Tony MottolaCast:
Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Martha Plimpton, Steven Hill, Lynne Thigpen, Alice Drummond, Elzbieta Czyzewska, Michael Boatman (more)Plots(1)
After anti-war activists Annie and Arthur Pope (Christine Lahti and Judd Hirsch) blew up a napalm lab in 1971, they became lifelong fugitives. They and their children have stayed just one step ahead of the law, running from state to state, job to job, identity to identity. But now elder son Danny (River Phoenix) wants to stop running from a past not his. And to do so, he might never see his on-the-lam family again. Directed by Sidney Lumet from Naomi Foner's Golden Globe Award-winning screenplay, this powerful, bittersweet movie also stars Martha Plimpton and Steven Hill, and earned acting honors for the emotional performances of Lahti (Los Angeles Film Critics Best Actress Award) and Phoenix (named Best Supporting Actor by the National Board of Review). (Warner Bros. Home Entertainment)
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All happy families are similar, every unhappy family is unhappy in its own way. Although this is how Tolstoy introduces Anna Karenina, Lumet's film captures the most famous introductory sentence of world literature more accurately. I don't remember ever seeing such a multi-layered drama that would be similarly emotional and, at the same time, free of grand gestures. A lot is said, but that which goes unspoken has the strongest impact, which works undeniably well thanks to the complete ensemble led by the central trio of Phoenix, Hirsch and Lahti.
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