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PICTURES OF LOSS: RUNNING ON EMPTY, directed by Sidney Lumet

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If I told you I was writing about movies that have meant something to me after my father died, you probably wouldn’t blink if I said that Hereafter and The Darjeeling Limited were among my choices. You might have even thought of them yourself. But Running on Empty? Don’t humor me—you wouldn’t have thought of it in a million years. After all, no one dies (on screen) in Running on Empty. The film does not take bereavement as its subject as the other two do. And yet every time I watch it now it reminds me of my father.
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  • By Peter Tonguette
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  • November 23, 2011 3:06 AM
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