CinemaOSMovie · 2019 · 1h 57m

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

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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?

Directed byViva Van Loock

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Released
Runtime
1h 57m
Language
EN
Released
November 13, 2019
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Show of Force

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Nicholas Kristof

Nicholas Kristof

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Sheryl WuDunn

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Viva Van Loock
Produced by
Maro Chermayeff
Joshua Bennett

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