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The Boss Baby (2017)
★ 6.5 · 7,443 ratings on TMDB
Born leader.
A story about how a new baby's arrival impacts a family, told from the point of view of a delightfully unreliable narrator, a wildly imaginative 7 year old named Tim.
DirectorTom McGrath
The emergence reading
The Boss Baby keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9/E10 of the E0–E14 reality ladder, compressing corporate, family, love, competition, identity.
zero-distanceUScorporatefamilylovecompetitionidentity
⇄ Parameter shift — the dial this world turnsrigor: loose
E8intelligencebabies have adult-level intelligence while remaining physically infant via a secret formula (technology · local)
Same rung, same subject
Films fighting at the same level of reality, about the same things.
High School Musical (2006)E8/E9/E10 · competition, identity
The Art of Racing in the Rain (2019)E8/E9/E10 · family, identity
Herbie Fully Loaded (2005)E8/E9/E10 · competition, family
An Extremely Goofy Movie (2000)E8/E9/E10 · competition, family
Tangled (2010)E8/E9 · family, identity
Blue Beetle (2023)E8/E10 · corporate, familySame subject, different rung
The same preoccupations examined at another scale — one mind versus a nation.
Also bends a rule of reality
Other films that change a standing rule of their world — ranked first by those bending it at the same rung.
A Dog's Purpose (2017)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Her (2013)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004)alters at E8 · same rung · rigorous
Freaky Friday (2003)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
TRON: Legacy (2010)alters at E8 · same rung · loose
Trolls (2016)alters at E8 · same rung · looseSame people
Shared director or cast.
