In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immene void between the World Trade Center tower.
Twelve people have walked on the moon, but only one man - Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) - has ever, or will ever, walk in the immene void between the World Trade Center tower. Guided by his real-life mentor, Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), and aided by an unlikely band of international recruits, Petit and his gang overcome long odds, betrayals, dissenion and countless close calls to conceive and execute their mad plan. Robert Zemeckis, the director of such marvels as Forrest Gump, Cast Away, Back to the Future, Polar Express and Flight, again uses cutting edge technology in the service of an emotional, character-driven story. With innovative photorealistic techniques and IMAX 3D wizardry, The Walk is true big-screen cinema, a chance for moviegoer to viscerally experience the feeling of reaching the clouds. The film, a PG-rated, all-audience entertainment for moviegoer 8 to 80, unlike anything audiences have seen before, is a love letter to Paris and New York City in the 1970s, ...
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