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The Getaway (1972)

★ 7.1 · 648 ratings on TMDB

It takes two to make it … The big two.

The Getaway poster★ 7.1

A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.

DirectorSam Peckinpah
CastAl Lettieri, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson, Bo Hopkins, Dub Taylor, Jack Dodson
GenresAction, Crime, Thriller
The emergence reading

The Getaway 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

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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