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  • Genre: Documentary
  • Release Date: 07/25/2008
  • Running Time: 90 mins
  • Director: James Marsh
  • Cast: Ardis Campbell, David Demato, David Roland Frank, Aaron Haskell, Paul McGill, Jim Moore, Philippe Petit, Alan Welner, Jean François Heckel, Barry Greenhouse
  • Producer: Simon Chinn
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  • Distributor: Magnolia Pictures
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Box Office

  1. The Dark Knight, 26.1 million, 441.6 million
  2. Four Christmases, 31.1 million, 46.1 million
  3. Pineapple Express, 23.2 million, 41.3 million
  4. Bolt, 26.6 million, 66.8 million
  5. The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor, 16.5 million, 71.0 million
  6. Twilight, 26.3 million, 119.7 million
  7. Quantum of Solace, 18.8 million, 141.4 million
  8. The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants 2, 10.7 million, 19.6 million
  9. Australia, 14.8 million, 20.0 million
  10. Step Brothers, 9.1 million, 81.1 million
  11. Mamma Mia!, 8.2 million, 104.1 million
  12. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, 14.2 million, 159.1 million
  13. Transporter 3, 12.1 million, 18.2 million
  14. Journey to the Center of the Earth, 4.9 million, 81.8 million
  15. Hancock, 3.3 million, 221.7 million
  16. Role Models, 5.2 million, 57.8 million
  17. The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, 1.7 million, 5.2 million
  18. WALL-E, 3.1 million, 210.2 million
  19. Swing Vote, 3.1 million, 12.0 million
  20. Milk, 1.5 million, 1.9 million
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Man on Wire

Part caper movie, part real-life superhero saga, and entirely engrossing, James Marsh's documentary recounts in Rififi-like detail how a Parisian street performer and wire walker named Philippe Petit dodged cops, fought the elements, and defied seemingly impossible logistics to pull off a feat of death-defying frivolity: an illegal, hastily rigged tightrope walk on Aug. 7, 1974, across the 1,350-foot plunge between the World Trade Center's twin towers. Still lithe and trim, with a mime's precision of gesture, the now middle-aged Petit animates the movie with his impish presence, retelling the six years of struggle and the myriad complications en route to the fateful walk. The tale makes for gripping cinema: The visual medium conveys not only the terror and wonder of Petit's feat, but also its airy surrealism—a defiance of gravity made even more elating by its life-or-death consequences. Man on Wire is also haunted by the story it doesn't tell: Although the movie relies on present-day interviews with its subjects, the date September 11 is never uttered. But that void turns Marsh's film into a ghostly meditation on the transience of human accomplishment. All monuments, someday, end up tombstones. But for the duration of this exhilarating doc, the towers stand—and so, atop and between them, does Petit's once-in-a-lifetime achievement. — Jim Ridley


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