Word: lam
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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MARRIED TO THE MOB. The Mafia takes a ribbing in Jonathan Demme's hip jape. Michelle Pfeiffer (swoon!) is a Mob widow on the lam, and Dean Stockwell is tops as a henpecked gang lord...
...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...
MARRIED TO THE MOB. Another brand of all-American capitalism, the Mafia, takes its licks in Jonathan Demme's hip jape. Michelle Pfeiffer (swoon!) is a mob widow on the lam, and Dean Stockwell is tops as a henpecked gang lord...
What we have here is The Odd Couple on the Lam, with Mardukas trying to slip out of Walsh's clutches and the bounty hunter trying to evade the intricate triple pursuit that Screenwriter George Gallo has structured and Director Martin Brest has smartly executed. The FBI, led by burly, surly Alonzo Mosely (Yaphet Kotto), wants the accountant to testify against his former employers. The gangsters want him dead before that happens. And Marvin Dorfler (John Ashton), a rival bounty hunter, dull witted and implacable, wants to abduct the abductee and claim the fee for himself...
Exhibit A is America's Most Wanted, the new Fox network series that tries to enlist viewers in tracking down criminals on the lam. Each half-hour episode showcases two or three crimes, with the emphasis on brutal rapes and murders. Witnesses and law-enforcement agents are interviewed, and the crime is shown in a dramatized "re-creation." Viewers are then urged to phone in any information on a toll-free hotline, while investigators stand by to pursue leads. Since its Feb. 7 debut, 13 suspects profiled on the show have been apprehended...