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Storyline

The story of the Promethean struggles of Nikola Tesla, as he attempts to transcend entrenched technology—including his own previous work—by pioneering a system of wireless energy that would change the world.

Released

2020-08-14
Revenue

$459,051
Budget

$5,000,000
Runtime

1hr 42m
Genre

History, Drama
Status

Released
Language

English, Français
5.1
Production

Campbell Grobman Films, Intrinsic Value Films, Jeff Rice Films, Passage Pictures, Millennium Media, Under the Influence Productions

Crew

Michael Almereyda

Director

Michael Almereyda

Writer

Isen Robbins

Producer

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Cast

Ethan Hawke

Nikola Tesla

Eve Hewson

Anne Morgan

Jim Gaffigan

George Westinghouse

Kyle MacLachlan

Thomas Edison

Donnie Keshawarz

J.P. Morgan

Josh Hamilton

Robert Underwood Johnson

Ebon Moss-Bachrach

Anital Szigeti

Lucy Walters

Katherine Johnson

John Palladino

Bourke Cochran

Michael Mastro

Charles Peck

Hannah Gross

Mina Edison

Peter Greene

Nichols

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William Kemmler

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Professor Anthony

Eli Smith

Roller Skating Fiddler

Dan Bittner

Fred Ott

David Kallaway

John Kruesi

Nicholas Wuehrmann

Ed the Organist

Haley Elise Pehrson

Tesla's Mother

Tony Hutaj

Bill Edison

Corban Elwick-Schermitz

Tom Edison Jr.

Emory Gleeson

Dot Edison

Ian Lithgow

Alfred Brown

Emma Clare O'Connor

Evelyn

Gary Rissman

Man Comforting Dog

Steven Gurewitz

Harold P. Brown

Rick Zahn

Tracy Becker

Lois Smith

The Grande Dame

Tallulah McRae Silovsky

Young Anne Morgan

Hermione Heckrich

Agnes Johnson

Tom Farrell

Warden Durston

Thomas Roma

Prison Doctor

Vincent De Paul

Westinghouse Assistant

Christian Hicks

Waiter

Rebecca Dayan

Sarah Bernhardt

Jameal Ali

Swami Vivekananda

David Weinberg

Fritz Lowenstein

Paul Saltzberg

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Joshuah Melnick

Richard Gregg

Charles Baran

Alta Vista Concierge

David Kubicka

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Carl Bernzweig

J.P. Morgan's Assistant

George Aloi

Science Society President (uncredited)

Gary Ayash

Science Society Dignitary (uncredited)

Luna Jokic

Macak

Eli A. Smith

Roller Skating Fiddler

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Reviews for Tesla

A Review by tmdb28039023 1

Written by tmdb28039023 on 2022-08-25

According to this movie, Thomas Edison (MacLachlan) and Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) were like Mozart and Salieri if Mozart and Salieri had be... read more

According to this movie, Thomas Edison (MacLachlan) and Nikola Tesla (Ethan Hawke) were like Mozart and Salieri if Mozart and Salieri had been anything like they are portrayed in Amadeus – but then Tesla has as tenuous a hold on reality as Amadeus does, sans all the things that make Milos Forman's film otherwise great. This movie derives a sick pleasure from comparing the two inventors, emphasizing Edison's failures over Tesla's successes – whatever those may have been; I confess that, after seeing the film, I haven't the slightest idea of Tesla's achievements, apart from alternating current (which he did not invent) and, apparently, communicating with Mars. Perhaps it's due to the latter that Hawke plays Tesla as some kind of alien; a combination of Keanu in The Day the Earth Stood Still and Bowie in The Man Who Fell to Earth. Tesla depicts two meetings between the inventors only to admit that neither actually happened. In one of those imaginary encounters, Edison apologizes to Tesla and tells him that he was wrong about him. What is the point of this? If it is supposed to be a retroactive 'f-you' to Edison, methinks he is long past the point of caring. Apart from the historically revisionist chip on its shoulder, Tesla is a stylistic disaster. The film is narrated by Anne Morgan (Eve Hewson), American financier and banker J.P. Morgan's (Donnie Keshawarz) daughter. In addition to her role in the events of the film, Anne appears in cutaways, sitting at a table with a Mac computer (?), reporting the respective number of results in a Google search for Tesla and Edison, and telling us to Google the American businessman and engineer George Westinghouse. If this weren't strange enough, in the second half of the movie director/screenwriter Michael Almereyda has Hawke stand against a background that is either a matte painting (Niagara Falls, a field in Colorado, a restaurant) or a projection (a pair of horses frolicking in a meadow, to whom Hawke offers an apple); this might work in a stage play, or if the entire film consistently followed the same aesthetic, but here it's just another incomprehensible artistic choice. All of the above, however, is nothing compared to what will go down in history as arguably the lowest point in cinema in the year 2020; Ethan Hawke as Nikola Tesla doing a karaoke version of Tears for Fears' "Everybody Wants to Rule the World." This is the exact moment, with about ten minutes to go, when I said "F this movie" and never looked back.