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Directed by Sidney Lumet...

Author: By Aline Brosh, | Title: Rebels Without a Clue | 9/30/1988 | See Source »

RUNNING ON EMPTY. The gifted son of two '60s radicals must choose between his family and himself, without betraying either. Sidney Lumet's film bathes in political cliches and then comes clean. River Phoenix is a sensitive sensation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Critics' Choice: Sep. 19, 1988 | 9/19/1988 | See Source »

...Sidney Lumet has been here before, directing the 1983 Daniel, a fictionalized look at the Rosenberg spy family. And Phoenix has already played, in The Mosquito Coast, a teenager whose idealistic dad 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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: All in The Post-'60s Family RUNNING ON EMPTY | 9/12/1988 | See Source »

...begins veteran Director Sidney Lumet's latest flick, The Morning After, a thriller which saunters through the demimonde of Los Angeles, a synthetic world of high society hairdressers, third-rate actresses, and drag queens...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

...point here is not to try to second guess the director or screenwriter by guessing who set Viveca up. Lumet just wants you to sit back and absorb the atmosphere. Let the dirt of L.A. sink into your skin and relish the experience of seeing Jane Fonda look worse than you for once...

Author: By Cristina V. Coletta, | Title: Cinema Veritas | 1/23/1987 | See Source »

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