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Barely Lethal (2015)

★ 5.7 · 1,108 ratings on TMDB

Click. Clique. Bang.

Barely Lethal poster★ 5.7

A 16-year-old international assassin yearning for a "normal" adolescence fakes her own death and enrolls as a senior in a suburban high school. She quickly learns that being popular can be more painful than getting water-boarded.

DirectorKyle Newman
CastDove Cameron, Emma Holzer, Gabriel Basso, Hailee Steinfeld, Jaime King, Jessica Alba
GenresAction, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
The emergence reading

Barely Lethal keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 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.

Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets (2002)E8/E9/E10Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix (2007)E8/E9/E10Titanic (1997)E8/E9/E10Thor (2011)E8/E9/E10Doctor Strange (2016)E8/E9/E10The Dark Knight (2008)E8/E9/E10

Same subject, different rung

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

Men in Black (1997)E11/E13 · Action, AdventureKingsman: The Golden Circle (2017)E11/E12 · Action, AdventureKingsman: The Secret Service (2015)E11/E14 · Action, AdventureThe Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)E11/E12 · Action, AdventureTeam America: World Police (2004)E11/E12 · Action, AdventureSahara (2005)E14 · Action, Adventure

Same people

Shared director or cast.

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