Director Michelle Danner and Actress Elisabeth Röhm on New Film The Runner, Motherhood, and What's Next

Action-thriller and true life-coming-of-age story, The Runner , hit theaters last week.

Directed by Michelle Danner, the drama-thriller looks at a troubled teen, played by newcomer Edouard Philipponnat, who is forced to go undercover to take down a drug kingpin.

It also stars Cameron Douglas, Eric Balfour, and Elizabeth Röhm.

Röhm, a director too, and Danner Zoomed into LifeMinute to tell us all about it and more, including their subsequent projects and insights into their exciting careers.

Danner has a prolific career as a filmmaker, performer, and legendary acting coach at the Los Angeles Acting Conservatory she founded.

Their careers started in very different ways.

For Danner, acting was a part of the family business, while Röhm says she caught the acting bug starting as a history major.

Since then, she has had roles in Law & Order and American Hustle .

Both took on directing later in their careers.

Röhm recently directed a Lifetime movie, Girl in Room 13, starring the late Anne Heche, and Danner recently directed the film Miranda's Victim , the true life story of the Miranda Rights with an ensemble cast, including Abigail Breslin, Luke Wilson, Andy Garcia, and Donald Sutherland.

This is a LifeMinute with Michelle Danner and Elisabeth Röhm.