Not a bad movie but Judd Hirsch, who is brilliant on the series TAXI (the best sitcom ever, sorry Seinfeld), is way too old to play an aged hippie... He would have been old enough during the 1960's to know better than to blow up buildings for the sake of peace... that's the plot, by the way: a family of radicals had "accidentally" maimed a janitor who just "happened to be there" when the bomb went off, and they've been on the run ever since....
As has been mentioned, this is nothing else but a TV-movie; but, on the other hand, TV-movies are entertaining melodramas, and while River Phoenix is the only standout here along with mother Christine Lahti, again, Judd Hirsch was just a horrendous miscast... It's more difficult to believe that Judd is this blonde haired/uptturned nose kids dad than a revolutionary hippie...
The best scene involves the comparison to the good hippies and a bad one in which one of their former cohorts returns and wants to keep blowing up stuff... We get to see how good these people are in comparison, but they lack edge and aren't very interesting.
As has been mentioned, this is nothing else but a TV-movie; but, on the other hand, TV-movies are entertaining melodramas, and while River Phoenix is the only standout here along with mother Christine Lahti, again, Judd Hirsch was just a horrendous miscast... It's more difficult to believe that Judd is this blonde haired/uptturned nose kids dad than a revolutionary hippie...
The best scene involves the comparison to the good hippies and a bad one in which one of their former cohorts returns and wants to keep blowing up stuff... We get to see how good these people are in comparison, but they lack edge and aren't very interesting.