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The Crossing Guard (1995)

★ 6.0 · 283 ratings on TMDB

...some lives cross, others collide.

The Crossing Guard poster★ 6.0

Unable to move on from the loss of his daughter, Freddy, now a shell of the person he was before, swears to kill the man responsible for her death.

DirectorSean Penn
CastAnjelica Huston, David Baerwald, David Morse, Jack Nicholson, John Savage, Piper Laurie
GenresDrama, Thriller
The emergence reading

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

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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