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Ronald P. Lahti, a graduate of the Harvard Divinity School, and the Vice President of Residence and Counseling Services at the YMCA runs the program out of the building at 820 Mass...
...lashes out to end it. The play implies in each partner a hint of madness, then suggests how hard it is to distinguish between madness and vision. Ron Rifkin, who had a career-transforming success in The Substance of Fire, is even better in Three Hotels. Christine Lahti gives the less nuanced role of the wife an eerie blend of wit, charm and detachment...
...cause for charity but as a recognizable human misfortune, almost inevitable given the circumstances. Grant's direction is both sensitive and street-smart (filming was done in Pittsburgh). Daniels, though too fresh-faced as the blue-collar father, brings hot-tempered passion to the role. And Lahti, possibly the best actress in America working in TV (she won an Emmy nomination for her performance in the mini-series Amerika), is truly heartbreaking. She can convey both the despair lurking behind a brave comment to her husband and a pathetic joy at ever smaller victories. "You guys, look!" she gasps...
...based on the true story of a couple who were involved in the bombing of a napalm factory in which someone was killed. In Running, the events are changed, and we are told the victim is only wounded, presumably to avoid alienating viewers from the fictitious couple, Annie (Christine Lahti) and Arthur Pope (Judd Hirsch) and their two sons Danny (River Phoenix) and Harry (Jonas Abry...
...movie exploits the issue of family separation relentlessly. At heart, Running on Empty is a tearjerker. A particular heart-wrencher is the scene where Annie confronts her father after years of separation. Lahti, who is invariably better than the movies she is in, turns in a solid, believable performance. But the scene is disturbing, not only because it is emotionally manipulative, but also because it suggests that the Popes have forgotten that their sacrifice was a protest against bourgeois ideals. Annie goes back to her father, whom she once described as an "imperialist pig" for help in sending...