August 7, 1974. A young French man named Philippe Petit stepped out on a wire suspended between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center. He danced on this wire for an hour with no safety net before he was arrested for what has become to be known as the "artistic crime of the century."
Production Discovery Films (present); BBC Storyville [gb](present); UK Film Council [gb](present) (funding); Wall to Wall [gb](producer) (as Wall To Wall); Red Box Films [gb](in association with);
Cast Names Laurence Gates; Joel Ney; Robert Sciglimpaglia; Philippe Petit; Jean François Heckel; Jean-Louis Blondeau; Annie Allix; David Forman; Alan Welner; Mark (XL) Lewis; Barry Greenhouse; Jim Moore; Guy F. Tozzoli; Paul McGill; David Demato; Ardis Campbell; Aaron Haskell; Shawn Dempewolff-Barrett; David Roland Frank; Megan Delay;
Box Office USD 2,957,978
Release Date 2008-01-22 (Sundance Film Festival) 2008-04-01 * (Tribeca Film Festival) 2008-06-06 (Seattle International Film Festival) 2008-06-14 (Waterfront Film Festival) 2008-07-11 (Maine International Film Festival) 2008-07-25 (New York City, New York)
Genres Documentary; Crime;
MPAA Rating [?] Rated PG-13 for some sexuality and nudity, and drug references.
Running Time 1 hr. 34 min. 1 hr. 30 min. (Sundance Film Festival)