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Stretch (2014)

★ 6.2 · 717 ratings on TMDB

Shift happens.

Stretch poster★ 6.2

A hard-luck limo driver struggling to go straight and pay off a debt to his bookie takes on a job with a crazed passenger whose sought-after ledger implicates some seriously dangerous criminals.

DirectorJoe Carnahan
CastBrooklyn Decker, Chris Pine, Ed Helms, James Badge Dale, Jessica Alba, Kevin Bigley
GenresAction, Comedy, Thriller
The emergence reading

Stretch keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.

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Same subject, different rung

The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.

War, Inc. (2008)E12/E13 · Action, ComedyTenet (2020)E0/E14 · Action, ThrillerV for Vendetta (2006)E10/E12 · Action, ThrillerWorld War Z (2013)E4/E14 · Action, ThrillerBlade II (2002)E4/E10 · Action, ThrillerThe Interview (2014)E9/E12 · Action, Comedy

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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