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The Current War (2018)

PG-13 2019-10-04 (US) Drama, History 1h 48m

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Power changes everything

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Electricity titans Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse compete to create a sustainable system and market it to the American people.

Alfonso Gomez-Rejon

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Michael Mitnick

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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
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A review by Stephen Campbell

70%

Written by Stephen Campbell on September 27, 2019

Well acted and reasonably engaging, although there's a significant disconnect between form and content

The electric-lighting company with which I am connected purchased some time ago the patents for a complete alternating system, and my protest against this action can be found upon its minute-book. Up to the present time I have succeeded in inducing them not to offer this system to the public, nor will they ever do so with my consent. My personal desire would be to prohibit entirely the use of alternating currents. They are as unnecessary as they are dangerous.