The Landmark
10850 West Pico Blvd
310.281.8233
This event has passed.
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Man on Wire
- When
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Aug 14, 2008 – Aug 21, 2008
Daily
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- Price
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$12
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In 1968, a French teen named Philippe Petit sat in a dentist's office reading a magazine that featured the plans for what would become NYC's World Trade Center. Petit, a street performer with (ahem) high ambitions, drew a line from one tower to the other and vowed to one day walk between them. Six years later, with the assistance of a merry band of helpers, Petit stepped out on a wire 1,350 feet above the sidewalks of New York and made the 140-foot-long journey. Because of the secrecy, complexity, and sheer daring involved in the feat, James Marsh's doc treats Petit's crossing as one of the greatest capers ever pulled.
