Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope

Tightrope: Americans Reaching for Hope (2019) is a documentary film directed by Viva Van Loock.

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?

Cast

Nicholas Kristof

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Sheryl WuDunn

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