Michael Shaeffer

Some say that to embrace one's greatest talent is to make the world a better place. Others see a grown man spinning a twelve-foot hula hoop and snicker about trivial obsessions.

Some say that to embrace one's greatest talent is to make the world a better place. Others see a grown man spinning a twelve-foot hula hoop and snicker about trivial obsessions. Breaking world records is a mysteriously seductive tradition, alternately inspiring, reckless, and bizarre. Follow a joggler, a grape catcher, and a man who cycles nowhere as they battle the odds and their respective nemeses in pursuit of global dominance. Since when is it trivial to dream?

A story about theft, both criminal and emotional, "Breaking & Entering" follows a disparate group of long-term Londoners and new arrivals whose lives intersect in the inner-city area of King's Cross. When a landscape architect's (Jude Law) state-of-the-art offices in a seedy part of town are repeatedly burgled, his investigations launch him out of the safety of his familiar world.

This documentary follows a juggler, a grape catcher and a cyclist as they battle the odds in the hopes of setting world records.