Bradley Cooper stars as Stanton Carlisle, a mind reader who becomes tangled up with female psychiatrist Dr. Lilith Ritter (Cate Blanchett) who is out to debunk him as a fraud. Directed by Guillermo del Toro, the movie is based on the 1946 novel of the same name by William Lindsay Gresham. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Bradley Cooper, Cate Blanchett, Toni Collette, Willem Dafoe, Richard Jenkins, Rooney Mara, Ron Perlman and David Strathairn.