A young filmmaker attempts to understand his life by recording it on film only to have his experiment turn into an alienating voyeuristic obsession. One of the neglected milestones in contemporary film history this legendary independent classic captures the state of mind and the state of the art in late 1960s America.
After antiwar activists Annie and Arthur Pope (Chistine Lahti and Judd Hirsh) blew up a napalm lab in 1971 they became lifelong fugitives. They and their children have stayed just one step ahead of the law running from state to state job to job identity to identity. But now elder son Danny (River Phoenix) wants to stop running from a past not his. And to do so he might never see his on-the-lam family again...
Winner at the Toronto Independent Film Festival Pitch documents the childhood friends in their quest to sell their comedy script 'The Dawn'. It's crass farcical and down right outrageous yet they'll stop at nothing to get the attention of the Hollywood big boys. Not surprisingly their tireless attempts to gain recognition culminate in utter pandemonium.
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