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The Place Beyond the Pines (2013)

★ 7.0 · 5,169 ratings on TMDB

One moment can change your life.

The Place Beyond the Pines poster★ 7.0

A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.

DirectorDerek Cianfrance
CastBen Mendelsohn, Bradley Cooper, Bruce Greenwood, Dane DeHaan, Emory Cohen, Eva Mendes
GenresCrime, Drama
The emergence reading

The Place Beyond the Pines keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E11 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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