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Running on Empty

Summary: The eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live a life of his own.

Release Date: September 09, 1988

Genres: Drama, Crime, Music

Director: Sidney Lumet

Writer: Naomi Foner

Runtime: 1 h 56 min

MPAA: PG-13

Production: Double Play, Lorimar Film Entertainment

Distributor: HBO Max, The Criterion Channel

Country: United States

Language: English

Movie budget: $ 7,000,000

Domestic: $ 2,835,116

International: $ 12,825

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10 year old 10 year old boy 17 year old 17 year old teenage boy 1960s 1980s 46 year old 46 year old man abandoning a dog accidental death act of conscience activist anarchist anarchy anti war apology applause apple brown betty aspiring musician audition auto mechanic avoiding confrontation band room bank robbery bare chested boy bare chested male bare chested teenage boy barefoot male barefoot teenage boy barefoot teenage girl baseball based on true story beach bicycle birth certificate birthday birthday cake birthday party birthday present blinding someone blindness blue hill kentucky bolshevik bomb bomber bombing boy boy wears underwear boy wears white briefs boyfriend girlfriend relationship breaking and entering brooklyn dodgers brother brother relationship brother sister relationship bully bunk beds cafe cafeteria camera shot of bare feet camera shot of feet cancer chamber music chase church city class class photograph classroom climbing a tree climbing in a window climbing out a window co op college coming of age composer computer concert confession conscience cooking criminal crying man crying teenage boy crying woman dancer dancing death death of mother dentist diamond ring doctor dog drunkenness dying hair earphones earring eating eating an apple environment escape eyeglasses f rated f word family relationships father carries his son on his shoulders father daughter relationship father daughter reunion father son relationship father teenage son embrace fbi agent fbi federal bureau of investigation fear federal agent finger cut fire firewood fleeing florida city florida food foot massage friend friendship fugitive government grandfather grandson relationship grandmother grandson relationship guitar gun hairy chested man happy birthday to you hat hidden identity hiding hiding in a closet high school high school home economics class high school music class high school music teacher hiking home economics hospital husband wife relationship imperialism independent film irony janitor jew juilliard school karate keyboard kiss kitchen knife kung fu laboratory laundromat law liar liberalism liberation liberation army license plate lie listening to a pickup truck radio listening to music looking in a window love lsd male female relationship man falls to the ground man rubs a woman's foot man shaves man wears boxer shorts man wears eyeglasses man wears sunglasses manhattan new york city married couple media frenzy medical receptionist microfilm money most wanted list mother daughter relationship mother son embrace mother son relationship mother teenage son embrace mother teenage son kiss mother teenage son piano duet mugging murray hill manhattan new york city music school music teacher musical composition musical trio musician mustached man mutilation name calling napalm newspaper oakland california obituary on the lam on the run orchestra pain paralysis passion passport patient payphone philadelphia phillies photograph pianist piano piano duet pickup truck picnic area pizza pizza delivery boy plattsburgh new york political activism political protest political radical politics pollution poverty prison protest pumping gas questioning authority racism radical radicalism radio news rain record player recording reference to a bank robbery reference to a credit card reference to cancer reference to charlie chaplin reference to christmas reference to duke snider reference to fernando valenzuela reference to george s. patton reference to god reference to harriet nelson reference to j.d. salinger reference to james dean reference to james taylor reference to ludwig van beethoven reference to norman rockwell reference to oscar wilde reference to ozzie nelson reference to paralysis reference to rockefeller reference to the catcher in the rye the novel reference to zeus rehearsal research laboratory rest area restaurant revolution revolutionary revolutionary guerrilla rock 'n' roll rolling downhill running teenage boy sadness safety pin sand saying thank you scarf scholarship school photo sex shaving singer singing song stakeout stealing steinway steinway piano stolen identity straw boater hat student student radical surveillance take out food tape deck taxi teacher student relationship teenage boy teenage boy kisses a teenage girl on her forehead teenage boy wears boxer shorts teenage boy wears eyeglasses teenage girl teenage romance teenage son kisses his father telephone telephone booth telephone call terrorism terrorist theft three word title throwing away an apple timeframe 1960s timeframe 1980s toxic waste dumping toy animal tuna casserole underground underground politics underwear undressing university defense research installation university of california los angeles university of massachusetts urban setting v for victory hand gesture van vietnam war violin violinist watching tv waterford new jersey wearing sunglasses indoors wine woods wristwatch yale university year 1971

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