Documentary · United States of America · 2019 · 1h 57m

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Director

Cast

Nicholas Kristof as Self Sheryl WuDunn as Self

Crew

Wolfgang Held — Director of Photography David Hoon Newman — Editor Howard Sharp — Editor Chris Ruggerio — Original Music Composer Nathan Halpern — Original Music Composer Maro Chermayeff — Producer

Synopsis

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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