Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope
2019•1h 57m•Released
Documentary
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?
Director
Viva Van Loock
Languages
English
Studio
Show of Force
Cast
Nicholas Kristof
Self
Sheryl WuDunn
Self
Production
Company
Show of Force
Producer
Maro Chermayeff
Producer
Joshua Bennett
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