Mindbender is the story of Uri Geller, probably the world's most famous psychic. The film shows his rise to fame from small shows in the middle east where he amazed audiences with his ... See full summary »
Disregard Uri's childhood and the scene that is set at the Olympic Games 2000 in Sydney, 4 years after the movie's release, the main part of the movie is set in the time period 1969 (his first performance)-1974 (the US government experiments. Uri's marriage with Hannah is set in 1979.
Uri Geller:
If I have fixed all watches in Tel-Aviv then there must be some straight spoons I could bend.
The name of the "Stanford Research Institute" in Menlo Park, California, in which the experiments on Uri's talents were done in the 1970s is named "Stanton" in the movie.
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