A recent high school graduate is faced with two options, either go to a business school where his father wants him to go to, or get a full time job. However he decides to defy his father and go to Hawaii. Trouble is he has no money. Along the way he comes to understand his parents and eventually bonds with his father.

The Mosquito Coast

1986

English

6.6

♡ 31

78%

61%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

Peter Weir Director

Harrison Ford as Allie Fox

River Phoenix as Charlie Fox

Helen Mirren as Mother Fox

Dick O'Neill as Mr. Polski

An inventor spurns his city life and moves his family into the jungles of Central America to make a utopia.

Running on Empty

1988

English

7.6

♡ 15

81%

Sidney Lumet Director

River Phoenix as Danny Pope

L.M. Kit Carson as Gus Winant

Ed Crowley as Mr. Phillips

Marcia Jean Kurtz as School Clerk

The Popes are a family who haven't been able to use their real identity for years. In the late sixties, the parents set a weapons lab afire in an effort to hinder the government's Vietnam war campaign. Ever since then, the Popes have been on the run with the authorities never far behind. Their survival is threatened when their eldest son falls in love with a girl, and announces his wish to live his life on his own terms.

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