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Overall Rank: |
357 |
Avg. Rating: |
3.14/4 |
# of Ratings: |
46 |
Genres: |
Documentary |
Rating: |
PG-13 |
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English |
DVD Release: |
12/09/2008 |
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Director: |
James Marsh |
Actors: |
Philippe Petit
Annie Allix
Jean-Louis Blondeau
Alan Welner
Paul McGill
Jean François Heckel |
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A documentary about Phillipe Petit's exciting but very illegal death-defying tightrope walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, with interviews from all the participants and real coverage of the event.
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04/19/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Man of Wire |
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This is wonderful documentary that cleverly builds suspense for the final payoff of the spectacular feat. Given what happened to the twin towers on 9/11, it was interesting to watch the opening sequence unfold. As the team "attacks" the World Trade Center, they could just as easily have been terrorists.
The film earned a SmokeScreeners rating of 2 Butts for some fleeting images of smoking contained in the archival footage of the team. |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
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04/17/2009 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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Good documentary, but overrated IMO |
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The story was really good and really suspenseful and a lot of the camera work was fairly interesting and it's probably about as good as you could have done with this but at the end of the day it was about a tight rope walker and there's only so much you can do with that type of story.
It was made very artistic and I'm glad I saw it but it's not the most memorable thing ever. |
Rating of
3/4 |
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09/20/2008 (0 of 0 found this helpful) |
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This crowd pleasing documentary brings the World Trade Center back to life as it appears as a supporting player in Phillipe Petit's tightrope walk as the towers were nearing completion. The principal players are all interviewed as the documentary bounces back and forth between interviews, home videoes, and reenactments of staging what became quite a spectacle high above the towers of New York. Petit is almost like a child as he is giddy recalling his feat. The reenactments almost make it feel like an action movie. One of the stronger documentaries of 2008. |
Rating of
3.5/4 |
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