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Man on Wire DVD

PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested) :: Magnolia Home Entertainment :: Released: 2008-12-09

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Man on Wire Summary On August 7th 1974, a young Frenchman named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire and illegally rigged between New York's twin towers. After nearly an hour dancing on the wire, he was arrested, taken for psychological evaluation, and brought to jail before he was finally released. This documentary complies Petit s footage to show the numerous extraordinary challenges he faced in completing the arti

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Native New Yorkers know to expect the unexpected, but who among them could've predicted that a man would stroll between the towers of the World Trade Center? French high-wire walker Philippe Petit did just that on August 7th, 1974. Petit’s success may come as a foregone conclusion, but British filmmaker James Marsh’s pulse-pounding documentary still plays more like a thriller than a non-fiction entry--in fact, it puts most thrillers to shame. Marsh (Wisconsin Death Trip, The King) starts by looking at Petit's previous stunts. First, he took on Paris's Notre Dame Cathedral, then Sydney's Harbour Bridge before honing in on the not-yet-completed WTC. The planning took years, and the prescient Petit filmed his meetings with accomplices in France and America. Marsh smoothly integrates this material with stylized re-enactments and new interviews in which participants emerge from the shadows as if to reveal deep, dark secrets which, in a way, they do, since Petit's plan was illegal, "but not wicked or mean." The director documents every step they took to circumvent security, protocol, and physics as if re-creating a classic Jules Dassin or Jean-Pierre Melville caper. Though still photographs capture the feat rather than video, the resulting images will surely blow as many minds now as they did in the 1970s when splashed all over the media. Not only did Petit walk, he danced and even lay down on the cable strung between the skyscrapers. Based on his 2002 memoir, Man on Wire defines the adjective "awe-inspiring." --Kathleen C. Fennessy

Man on Wire [WS] DVD Techincal Details Cast:
Director: James Marsh
Aspect Ratio: 1.78:1
Rated: PG-13 (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Running Time: 94 mins
UPC: 876964001564
Binding: DVD
Studio: Magnolia Home Entertainment
Release Date: 2008-12-09
Region Code: 1
Specs: Closed-captioned, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled, Widescreen

Language & Subtitles English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language), French (Original Language),