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    The Current War

    Poster of the movie The Current War
    2017     History-based drama    
    USA
    1h 45min

    Starring Benedict Cumberbatch as Thomas Edison and Michael Shannon as George Westinghouse, THE CURRENT WAR is the epic story of the cutthroat competition between the greatest inventors of the industrial age over whose electrical system would power the new century. Backed by J.P. Morgan, Edison dazzles the world by lighting Manhattan. But Westinghouse, aided by Nikola Tesla, has seen fatal flaws in Edison's direct current design. Igniting a war of currents, Westinghouse and Tesla bet everything on risky and dangerous alternating current. Directed by Alfonso Gomez-Rejon (Me and Earl and the Dying Girl) and written by playwright Michael Mitnick (Sex Lives of our Parents), THE CURRENT WAR also stars Katherine Waterston, Nicholas Hoult, Tom Holland, Matthew Macfadyen, and Tuppence Middleton.

    Directed byAlfonso Gomez-Rejon
    Written byMichael Mitnick
    CompanyThe Weinstein CompanyEntertainment OneLes Films Séville

    Starring

    Benedict Cumberbatch
    Michael Shannon
    Nicholas Hoult
    Tom Holland
    Katherine Waterston
    Tuppence Middleton
    Matthew Macfadyen
    + MORE

    Video

    2:26

    Trailer

    6 years ago

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