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Release Date:
November 13, 2019
Original Title:
Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
Genres:
Documentary
Production Companies:
Show of Force
Production Countries:
United States of America
Ratings / Certifications:
N/A
Runtime: 117
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn explore the causes and costs of addiction, poverty and incarceration plaguing America, from the inner city to small towns like Kristof's hometown of Yamhill, Oregon. While pockets of empathy and aid exist, are they enough to rescue the thousands of Americans in despair, for whom the American Dream of self-reliance is impossibly out of reach?
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Co-Director:
Maro Chermayeff
Joshua Bennett
Director:
Viva Van Loock
Director of Photography:
Wolfgang Held
Editor:
Howard Sharp
David Hoon Newman
Executive Producer:
Maro Chermayeff
Jeff Dupre
Joshua Bennett
Original Music Composer:
Nathan Halpern
Chris Ruggerio
Producer:
Maro Chermayeff
Joshua Bennett
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