The Current War
6.703
1088 reviews
Drama/History
1h 48m
2018
Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
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Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.
- DirectorAlfonso Gomez-Rejon
- Release1 February 2018
- Genre
- Duration1h 48m
- Budget$30,000,000
- Revenue$12,217,160
- Rate6.7031088 reviews
- Productions
Bazelevs Production, Film Rites, Fourth Floor Productions, 13 Films, Thunder Road
Cast
Benedict Cumberbatch
Thomas Edison
Michael Shannon
George Westinghouse
Nicholas Hoult
Nikola Tesla
Katherine Waterston
Marguerite Westinghouse
Tom Holland
Samuel Insull
Matthew Macfadyen
J.P. Morgan
Tuppence Middleton
Mary Edison
Stanley Townsend
Franklin Pope
Damien Molony
Bourke Cockran
Conor MacNeill
William Kemmler
Celyn Jones
Sherman Quincy
Craig Roberts
Robert Lane
Harry Melling
Benjamin Vale
Colin Stinton
Daniel Burnham
Oliver Powell
Leo
John Schwab
Rudolph Young
Tom Bell
Reverend Vincent
Tom Sweet
Boy
Iain McKee
Reporter
Jason Matthewson
Stock Broker
Woody Norman
Dash Edison
Louis Ashbourne Serkis
Older Dash
Phil Hodges
City Gent
Ekow Quartey
Journalist 1
Adam Lazarus
Wabco Worker
Simon Connolly
Sioux City
Joseph Balderrama
Horace Kaden
Martyn Mayger
Lawyer
Toby Williams
Fort Worth Investment Banker
Tim Steed
Maurice Manesburg
Jeremy Oliver
Mr. Westinghouse's Secretary
Liza Ross
Beti
Steve Carroll
Cinema Goer
James Chalmers
South Dakota Delegate
Nancy Crane
Gladys
Will Irvine
Reporter 1
Adam Pearce
New Orleans Investment Banker
Sophia Ally
Dotty Edison
Greg Haiste
South Dakota Delegate
Jed Aukin
Westinghouse Secretary
Simon Manyonda
Lewis Latimer
Nigel Whitmey
Doctor Grandoff
Benjamin Schnau
George Westinghouse's Secretary (uncredited)
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