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Showtime (2002)

★ 5.6 · 1,067 ratings on TMDB

Lights. Camera. Aggravation.

Showtime poster★ 5.6

A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.

DirectorTom Dey
CastDrena De Niro, Eddie Murphy, Joy Bryant, Nestor Serrano, Peter Jacobson, Rachael Harris
GenresAction, Comedy
The emergence reading

Showtime 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/E10The Dark Knight (2008)E8/E9/E10The Dark Knight Rises (2012)E8/E9/E10Django Unchained (2012)E8/E9/E10Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (2005)E8/E9/E10Doctor Strange (2016)E8/E9/E10

Same subject, different rung

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

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Same people

Shared director or cast.

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