I've seen this movie. It didn't lionize and celebrate the Weather Underground at all. In fact, it accomplished quite the opposite -- it made them look misguided and pathetic.
The movie tells the story of a family where the mother and father were involved in a 1960s-type leftists anti-war bombing. The parents have been on the run ever since, living under assumed names and running from town to town whenever it appears that they are about to be caught. They have had two children since the bombing, who have understandably had a difficult life growing up in such circumstances. The movie picks up the family just as the older son is about to graduate high school, but has to move yet again because the heat is coming down on the family.
It is impossible to imagine how anyone can see this movie as a celebration of the radical bomb-throwing left. If anything, it is an indictment of the stupidity of violent student radicals in the 1960s, and the futility of their efforts.
Bingo. I always looked at Running on Empty the same way.But the left I am sure loves to look at it as a martyr movie for their generation.
Never let the facts get between you and kicking around a good straw man.