What is Housekeeping / Running on Empty about?

Double Feature: HOUSEKEEPING, 1987, 116 min. Dir. Bill Forsyth. Scottish master Bill Forsyth directs his first American feature adapting novelist Marilynne Robinson's tale of two sisters who live with their offbeat Aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti). RUNNING ON EMPTY, 1988, 116 min. Dir. Sidney Lumet. Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti are a couple of ex-radicals who have been on the run from the FBI for years; River Phoenix is their son struggling under the weight of his parents' past and expectations. Discussion between films with actress Christine Lahti. Free admission for all American Cinematheque members.

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What is Housekeeping / Running on Empty about?: Double Feature: HOUSEKEEPING, 1987, 116 min. Dir. Bill Forsyth. Scottish master Bill Forsyth directs his first American feature adapting novelist Marilynne Robinson's tale of two sisters who live with their offbeat Aunt Sylvie (Christine Lahti).

RUNNING ON EMPTY, 1988, 116 min. Dir. Sidney Lumet. Judd Hirsch and Christine Lahti are a couple of ex-radicals who have been on the run from the FBI for years; River Phoenix is their son struggling under the weight of his parents' past and expectations.

Discussion between films with actress Christine Lahti.

Free admission for all American Cinematheque members.