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Running On Empty (1988) - You Can't Dance To Beethoven

Danny (River Phoenix), teen son of fugitive radicals, under an assumed name, joins his first class at his new school where music teacher Phillips (Ed Crowley) has played a selection of funk, followed by Beethoven, and is encouraged to comment, in Sidney Lumet’s Running On Empty, 1988.

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