Running on Empty

2024

Comedy

5
Rotten Tomatoes Critics - Rotten 17% · 18 reviews
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 4.8/10 10 286 286

Plot summary

When Mort finds out he has less than a year to live, his fiancé Nicole leaves him and he’s forced to accept his fate. Mort joins a dating service that matches people by their death dates and meets Kate, all while being stalked by a deranged pimp.


Uploaded by: FREEMAN
August 31, 2024 at 07:53 PM

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Top cast

Lucy Hale as Kate
Monica Potter as Elaine
Dustin Milligan as Randall
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English 2.0
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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23.976 fps
1 hr 30 min
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Movie Reviews

Reviewed by ChicanoSurfer 1 / 10

Hmmmm interesting

Sad fell flat.

The constant meandering with no sense of direction, whoa.

I get the ending explanation but needs to hold the audience to get that point.

Several times I wanted to stop and maybe watch another movie or go and do something else.

Have 3 good actors in hale, eastwood, and keir but nothing.

Hale really not in this until an hour into movie.

Eastwood do not understand why is in this, what a waste of potential. Sad so sad!

This a tough star sell for me, no zero so? Whew

Makes no sense? Does that make any kind of sensible reasoning to anyone else out there?

Said Mort, running on empty, is meandering

Why why so weird makes no sense such potential but?

Had hoped for a good drama-rom-com but seriously missed the mark.

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Reviewed by Prismark10 2 / 10

Running on Empty

The dramedy Running on Empty has had a title change to the more bland Mort in Sherman Oaks.

Ready to be buried might have been a better title.

Mort (Keir Gilchrist) works in the family owned funeral parlour in San Fernando Valley. He has punched above his weight to be engaged to stunning but vacuous Nicole (Francesca Eastwood.)

They decide to get their Life Day Count checked. Which assesses how many days a person will live barring things like accidents. Nicole has 60 years left, but Mort has less than a year. Nicole promptly ditches him.

Trying to make sense of his remaining days. Mort enroles on a dating service for people with short life expectancy. It is a disaster but makes a friend of kookie Kate (Lucy Hale) who makes the video for the dating site.

However Mort is also being pursued by a pimp after a prostitute Mort met in a bar dies.

This could had been an interesting story. If it was completely rewritten. The movie wants to be a quirky independent feature.

Instead it is full of tired old tropes. The pimp angle is jarring. Mort should had gone to the police and told them some guy stole his car. Katie is the Manic Pixie Dream Girl, she even has blue highlights.

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