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The Walk

  • 20152015
  • PGPG
  • 2h 3m
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
128K
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Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
The story of French high-wire artist Philippe Petit's attempt to cross the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974.
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In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.In 1974, high-wire artist Philippe Petit recruits a team of people to help him realize his dream: to walk the immense void between the World Trade Center towers.
IMDb RATING
7.3/10
128K
YOUR RATING
  • Director
    • Robert Zemeckis
  • Writers
    • Robert Zemeckis(screenplay)
    • Christopher Browne(screenplay)
    • Philippe Petit(book "To Reach the Clouds")
  • Stars
    • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    • Charlotte Le Bon
    • Guillaume Baillargeon
Top credits
  • Director
    • Robert Zemeckis
  • Writers
    • Robert Zemeckis(screenplay)
    • Christopher Browne(screenplay)
    • Philippe Petit(book "To Reach the Clouds")
  • Stars
    • Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    • Charlotte Le Bon
    • Guillaume Baillargeon
  • See production, box office & company info
    • 267User reviews
    • 303Critic reviews
    • 70Metascore
  • See more at IMDbPro
    • Awards
      • 3 wins & 17 nominations

    Videos38

    Extended Footage
    Trailer 4:43
    Extended Footage
    Out Now
    Trailer 2:12
    Out Now
    New Trailer
    Trailer 2:30
    New Trailer
    Trailer #1
    Trailer 2:09
    Trailer #1
    Looking For A Sign
    Clip 1:11
    Looking For A Sign
    My Dream
    Clip 1:11
    My Dream
    Edge Of The Void
    Clip 1:11
    Edge Of The Void
    Sending The Cable
    Clip 1:14
    Sending The Cable
    Something Beautiful
    Clip 1:02
    Something Beautiful
    My Dream
    Clip 1:11
    My Dream
    Exclusive: "What It's Like to Be on the Wire"
    Featurette 1:32
    Exclusive: "What It's Like to Be on the Wire"
    Exclusive: "What It's Like to Be on the Wire"
    Featurette 1:28
    Exclusive: "What It's Like to Be on the Wire"

    Photos99

    Robert Zemeckis in The Walk (2015)
    James Badge Dale, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clément Sibony, César Domboy, Ben Schwartz, Charlotte Le Bon, and Benedict Samuel in The Walk (2015)
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
    Ben Kingsley and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
    Robert Zemeckis, Ben Kingsley, and Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt in The Walk (2015)
    Robert Zemeckis, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Clément Sibony, and Charlotte Le Bon in The Walk (2015)
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Charlotte Le Bon in The Walk (2015)

    Top cast

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    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    Joseph Gordon-Levitt
    • Philippe Petit
    Charlotte Le Bon
    Charlotte Le Bon
    • Annie
    Guillaume Baillargeon
    • Outdoor Café Man
    Émilie Leclerc
    Émilie Leclerc
    • Outdoor Café Woman
    • (as Emilie Leclerc)
    Mark Trafford
    • American Tourist
    Inka Malovic
    Inka Malovic
    • Woman in Chalk Circle
    Lucas Ramacière
    • Boy in Chalk Circle
    Martin Lefebvre
    Martin Lefebvre
    • Gendarme
    Philippe Bertrand
    • Gendarme
    Laurence Deschênes
    Laurence Deschênes
    • Young Girl with Candy
    Patricia Tulasne
    Patricia Tulasne
    • Dental Office Receptionist
    Jean-Robert Bourdage
    Jean-Robert Bourdage
    • Dental Patient
    Sylvie Lemay
    Sylvie Lemay
    • Dental Patient
    Sasha Dominique
    Sasha Dominique
    • Dental Patient
    Soleyman Pierini
    Soleyman Pierini
    • Boy Petit
    Jade Kindar-Martin
    • Circus High Wire Performer
    Patrick Baby
    • Petit's Father
    Ben Kingsley
    Ben Kingsley
    • Papa Rudy
    • Director
      • Robert Zemeckis
    • Writers
      • Robert Zemeckis(screenplay)
      • Christopher Browne(screenplay)
      • Philippe Petit(book "To Reach the Clouds")
    • All cast & crew
    • See more cast details at IMDbPro

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    Storyline

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    Did you know

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    • Trivia
      Philippe Petit personally trained Joseph Gordon-Levitt how to walk on a tightrope. When the training started, Petit predicted that Gordon-Levitt would need no more than eight days of training to be able to walk on a wire alone, which came true.
    • Goofs
      The broadcast antenna on the World Trade Center's north tower wasn't added until 1978, four years after the events of the movie took place.
    • Quotes

      [first lines]

      Philippe Petit: "Why?" That is the question people ask me most. Pourquoi? Why? For what? Why do you walk on the wire? Why do you tempt fate? Why do you risk death. But, I don't think of it this way. I never even say this word, death. La mort. Yes of okay, I said it once, or maybe three times, just now... But watch, I *will* not say it again. Instead, I use the opposite word. Life. For me, to walk on the wire, this is life. C'est la vie.

      Philippe Petit: [now standing in the torch of the Statue of Liberty] So, picture with me it's 1974, New York city, and I am in love with two buildings - two towers. Or as everyone in the world will calls them, the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. They call to me. These towers, they stir something inside of me, and they inspire in me a dream. My dream is to hang a high-wire between those twin towers, and *walk* on it! Of course, uh, this is impossible, not to mention, illegal. So, why attempt the impossible? Why follow your dream? But, I cannot answer this question why, not with words. But I can show you how i happened. And so, we must go back in time, and across the ocean, because my love affair with these beautiful towers did not begin in New York. In case you couldn't tell, I'm not from here. No, my story begins in another one of the world's most beautiful cities, se Paris.

    • Connections
      Featured in The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon: Joseph Gordon-Levitt/Chris Hardwick/Big Grams (2015)
    • Soundtracks
      Douce Candy
      Adaptation of "Sugar Sugar"

      Written by Jeff Barry and Andy Kim

      Adapted by Arlette Kotchounian

      Performed by Claude François

      Courtesy of Mercury Records France

      Under license from Universal Music Enterprises

    User reviews267

    Review
    Top review
    One of the best biopics in American film history.
    What did you expect from the director of Back to the Future and Forrest Gump? Robert Zameckis has another thoroughly enjoyable film, The Walk, about Philippe Petit's (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) high-wire walk between the World trade Center's twin towers in 1974. It's as romantic as Gump and addictive as Future with the added interest of a biopic that is true to its history.

    From the first moment we meet Petit talking to us from the top of the Statue of Liberty, and this story is about freedom if nothing else, we know we are in the presence of a man who has followed his dream and achieved it. To co-writers Zameckis and Christopher Browne must go praise for giving the Frenchmen poetic English in small doses, just enough to elevate the proceedings from nuts and bolts to heady ambition.

    Those 15 minutes on the wire are as suspenseful as possible—a mark of the true auteur, who can make us worry for our hero even though we know he will survive (he does narrate after all, and some audience will remember Man on a Wire, the excellent doc from 2008). Because Zameckis knows his special effects, I was mesmerized by the shots from atop the towers to the street below. Although I don't like heights anyway, I had to look down every time in wonder at the scope of the danger to Petit.

    While the Walk is about this extraordinary man, it is also a romantic eulogy to the towers, which arguably became favorites of New Yorkers after Petit's stunt. The "forever" pass to the top of the towers he receives as a reward from the city is painfully ironic considering 9/11. Because his feat was once in a lifetime, perhaps the passing of the towers reminds us that nothing lasts "forever."
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    • jdesando
    • Sep 29, 2015

    Details

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    • Release date
      • October 9, 2015 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
    • Official site
      • Official site
    • Languages
      • English
      • French
      • Czech
    • Also known as
      • To Walk the Clouds
    • Filming locations
      • Montréal, Québec, Canada
    • Production companies
      • Sony Pictures Entertainment (SPE)
      • TriStar Productions
      • ImageMovers
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    Box office

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    • Budget
      • $35,000,000 (estimated)
    • Gross US & Canada
      • $10,137,502
    • Opening weekend US & Canada
      • $1,560,299
      • Oct 4, 2015
    • Gross worldwide
      • $61,181,942
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    Technical specs

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    • Runtime
      2 hours 3 minutes
    • Color
      • Color
    • Sound mix
      • SDDS
      • Datasat
      • Dolby Digital
    • Aspect ratio
      • 2.39 : 1

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