Running on Empty poster
Director Sidney Lumet
Writer Naomi Foner

Running on Empty

Tagline: They chose their lives. Now their son must choose his.

Release Date: 1988-09-09

Duration: 116 minutes

Synopsis

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.

Casting

  • River Phoenix
    Danny Pope
  • Christine Lahti
    Annie Pope
  • Martha Plimpton
    Lorna Phillips
  • Judd Hirsch
    Arthur Pope
  • Lynne Thigpen
    Contact at Eldridge St.
  • Jenny Lumet
    Music Girl
  • Augusta Dabney
    Abigail Patterson
  • Michael Boatman
    Spaulding
  • Steven Hill
    Donald Patterson
  • David Margulies
    Dr. Jonah Reiff