With such high stakes, educators today are like tightrope walkers without a safety net, responsible for meeting the needs of every student, with little room for error. (ascd.org)
It tells the story of famed French tightrope walker Philippe Petit, who, in August 1974, hung — somehow — a solid wire between the (at that time) almost - completed World Trade Center towers in lower Manhattan and then, for almost 45 minutes, performed the impossibly dangerous feat of walking back and forth along its length. (chrisreedfilm.com)
Mentored by Papa Rudy (Ben Kingsley), the multilingual patriarch of a family of tightrope walkers, Philippe finds further accomplices in a photographer (Clément Sibony), an electronics store owner (James Badge Dale, resuming the scene - stealer duties he briefly held in Zemeckis» Flight), a life insurance salesman who works high in one of the towers (Steve Valentine), and a couple of iffy allies («Parks & Rec»'s Ben Schwartz and, comic relief, Benedict Samuel). (dvdizzy.com)