Monday 13 July 2015

Running on Empty (1988 Sidney Lumet)

Rather good screenplay - by Naomi Foner - about radical parents who are constantly on the run with their sons following a terrorist (Peace) act that went wrong - film might as well be about families (and their conflicts) generally.

Good cast comprises the uniquely talented River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Christine Lahti and Jonas Abry, with Martha Plimpton.

Shot in that slightly mournful pallette of Gerry Fisher. Andrew Mondshein's editing is distinguished by long dissolves.

River is playing Beethoven's Pathétique piano sonata and Mozart's Fantasy No. 4 in C-Minor.

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