"From filmmaker Robert Zemeckis, The Walk tells the incredible and inspiring true story of French aerialist Philippe Petit (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) who, on August 7, 1974, surprised the city of New York with a death-defying high-wire walk between the almost-completed World Trade Center towers. The city below came to a standstill when everyone stopped in their tracks and looked up to witness a spectacle that would forever change the way the city felt about the twin buildings......." click below for full article