SUCKING IN THE SEVENTIES:
Now ask why Hollywood has never made a movie about this https://t.co/B4aDAzyZRr
— Jack Poso 🇺🇸 (@JackPosobiec) October 4, 2025
Well, they actually did, at least couple of times, including 1988’s Running on Empty, directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Judd Hirsch and River Phoenix. Lumet’s film sympathized with the Nixon-era anti-Vietnam War terrorists, now on the run from the FBI:
And then there was 2012’s The Company You Keep, directed by and starring the recently deceased Robert Redford:
Promoting the film the following year, Redford had this exchange on Good Morning America with fellow Democrat George Stephanopoulos:
Stephanopoulos was so enthusiastic towards Robert Redford and his sympathetic new film about an ex-1960s radical that the actor enthused, “You ought to get on the marketing team!” The aging actor/director appeared on Tuesday’s Good Morning America and endorsed the violent actions of protest groups. Reminiscing on his own past, the liberal Hollywood star recounted, “When I was younger, I was very much aware of the movement. I was more than sympathetic, I was probably empathetic because I believed it was time for a change.”
After Stephanopoulos wondered, “Even when you read about bombings,” Redford responded, “All of it. I knew that it was extreme and I guess movements have to be extreme to some degree.”
Among their other terrorist attacks during the Nixon era, the Weathermen bombed the Pentagon; right around the same time Redford’s film was bombing at the box office, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev quite literally bombed the Boston Marathon, leading to his totally cool and dreamy cover photo in Rolling Stone magazine. When Redford’s movie was previewed at Sundance in January of 2012, the late Kathy Shaidle wrote:
Over twenty years after Running on Empty came out and more than ten years after Bill Ayers told The New York Times (in its 9/11/01 morning edition, no less) that he regretted not setting more bombs, Robert Redford’s next movie sees him playing “a fugitive Weather Underground radical who has been in hiding for 30 years.”
I suppose it makes for a nice change from Weather Underground radicals who teach at major universities and hang out with the president.
Just to bring it all full circle, as Marathon Pundit noted back then, “Boston Marathon bombs similar to Bill Ayers’ Weather Underground nail bomb.” Ayers’ “device was intended to be detonated at a soldiers’ dance at Fort Dix, New Jersey.”