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Released: 2006
HUGH JACKMAN, CHRISTIAN BALE, MICHAEL CAINE and SCARLETT JOHANSSON in a CHRISTOPHER NOLAN film with killer twists and turns ... How can you go wrong? Based on the novel by CHRISTOPHER PRIEST, it centers around the intense rivalry between two London magicians at the start of the 20th century, Robert Angier and Alfred Borden, and the extraordinary lengths they go to to get the upper hand on the comp-etition and create the ultimate 'prestige'. Angier's search leads him to eccentric scientist NIKOLA TESLA (DAVID BOWIE) who has developed a machine that creates and teleports a duplicate of any item placed in it. Tesla was a real-life inventor and electrical engineer who had his own battles with THOMAS EDISON, as featured in the film. |