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...kept his family on the run; Plimpton offered pert consolation in that film too. Those films foundered on their ambitions; this time the pieces fall together. The actors are an ensemble who know each other like, well, family. Hirsch is righteous and funny without ever being Alan Alda; Lahti etches another of her nifty modern heroines; Phoenix shows the strength and range that could make him a must-see star for decades. All locate saving quirks in characters who could have been TV-movie-of-the-week stereotypes...
...family, the Popes may seem unique. Not many parents are '60s radicals like Artie (Judd Hirsch) and his wife Annie (Christine Lahti), on the lam since they bombed a university lab in the dear dread days of the Viet Nam War resistance. Even fewer have stayed together and raised two fine sons: Danny (River Phoenix), now 17, and Harry (Jonas Abry), 10. At heart, though, the Popes share the passionate conservatism of any family: their desperate fugitive adventure has become a habit worth preserving at all costs. Their secret, their constant risk of exposure, keeps them close. And Danny...
AMERIKA (ABC). The year's most overdiscussed and underappreciated mini-series painted a bleak picture of the U.S. under Soviet rule. But instead of right- wing politics, Writer-Director Donald Wrye offered a richly textured and beautifully acted (especially by Christine Lahti and Kris Kristofferson) rumination on Americans in crisis...
...Brooks) and a flawed Superman-anchorman (William Hurt). The male leads had long been cast, but until just before rehearsals, Jim Brooks was still looking for his "little steamroller." Debra Winger, who had shone in his Terms of Endearment, was pregnant and unavailable. Sigourney Weaver, Mary Beth Hurt, Christine Lahti, Judy Davis -- all were fine, but nobody was right...
...suicide is shot in a way that provokes the biggest laugh in Housekeeping, a movie that is not as funny as some Forsyth fans will claim, but sturdy and rich. All the girls' guardians turn out to be too old for the job, so their Aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti) is summoned home from her wanderings to take up the task...