# Un lugar en ninguna parte (1988)

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**Original title**: *Running on Empty*
**Runtime**: 116 min
**Genres**: Drama, Romance, Crime
**Directed by**: Sidney Lumet
**Written by**: Naomi Foner
**Starring**: Christine Lahti, River Phoenix, Judd Hirsch, Jonas Abry, Martha Plimpton, Ed Crowley

> *They chose their lives. Now their son must choose his.*

## Synopsis (in-house rewrite)

A family dodging their past faces the oldest threat: growing up. In 1967 they torched a weapons lab then spent years on the lam, kids included. When the eldest wants out for love they learn the government isn’t the only thing that pursues.

**Mood tags**: bittersweet, raw, tender

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