The Current War
Rating: 6.3 Plot Summary:
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.
Director: Alfonso Gomez-Rejon
Running time: 1h 47min
Genre: Biography,Drama,History
Release date: 25 October 2019 (USA)
Cast: Tom Holland, Benedict Cumberbatch, Nicholas Hoult, Matthew Macfadyen, Katherine Waterston, Tuppence Middleton
