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By Kate S (249) on 17 Feb 2006

This was a strange movie the first time I saw it, but it's an original story with good characters. I still love it…

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By Tom F (311) on 18 Jul 2005

Running on Empty introduced me to River Pheonix. I was young and I didn't know he had died several years before…

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By Emanuel Levy (2,948) for EmanuelLevy.Com (2,771) on 17 Jun 2005

River Phoenix gives an Oscar nominated performance as the teenage son of radical parents in Sidney Lumet's interesting but not entirely satisfying…

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By Bob Bloom (1,124) for Journal and Courier (Lafayette, IN) (1,017) on 19 Sep 2003

A touching, forgotten drama about a family of radicals still running from the consequences of their actions…

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By Ryan P. Murphy (3) for Miami Herald (3,319) on 11 Jul 2002

A Sidney Lumet movie is loose. It's a big vehicle, loaded with the usual artistic statement. But Running on Empty is coasting downhill fast…

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By Jonathan Rosenbaum (1,657) for Chicago Reader (7,190) on 17 Dec 2001

The weaknesses of the film are twofold: an inability to convey any convincing grasp of the present beyond the family's present (and ongoing)…

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By Roger Ebert (5,190) for Chicago Sun-Times (7,580) on 30 Apr 1999

There are great performances in the central roles. Phoenix essentially carries the story; it's about him…

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By Hal Hinson (447) for Washington Post (9,851) on 31 Aug 1998

Actors here perform admirably, though they seem not to know exactly what they're supposed to be playing and so they are reduced to giving us…

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By Kevin Thomas (1,201) for Los Angeles Times (12,977) on 25 Sep 1990

Sophisticated, uncompromising and refreshingly original, it is one of those rare films which is likely to mean as much to teens as it does…

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By Rick Groen (1,350) for The Globe and Mail (Toronto) (4,018) on 29 Aug 1989

The film is first and foremost a family drama, where the politics that led to this predicament take a back seat to the people who find themselves…

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By David Ansen (1,073) for Newsweek (1,534) on 24 Jan 1989

Despite Lumet's home-spun pincer movement on the espionage/conspiracy genres, cliché still sneaks up and nips the film into submission…

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