Petit is played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, adopting an iffy French accent, narrating the story from the torch of the Statue of Liberty (a French contribution, fittingly), with the World Trade Center off in the distance. The narration frames the drama that begins with then Petit growing up an acrobatic street performer in Paris, who learns to walk wires with the help of a kindly Czech-born circus veteran named Papa Rudy (Kingsley). It is there he meets a street musician named Annie, who becomes his girlfriend and first accomplice in what he would later call "the coup", which is what he would call his mission to walk the ultimate high wire spanning the 130 feet of distance between the Twin Towers after they are constructed. Further accomplices are drawn in to help when he makes it to Manhattan, including a photographer and a math genius.
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