Unwilling to be content with what he has Stanton becomes involved with a Psychologist named Lilith (Cate Blanchett) and uses her knowledge to set up higher-profile marks who will pay well for his supposed abilities and in doing so sets a dangerous chain of events into motion. Eventually, Stanton seeks bigger opportunities and leaves with Molly for the city where they in time develop a successful act that offers them two shows a night at a fancy hotel and some of the finer things in life. While striking a friendship with fellow employee Molly (Rooney Mara) Stanton learns that Zeena's older and alcoholic husband has a skill from a former act where he learns to read people and use verbal cues to appear to have the power of clairvoyance. The eager Stanton is given advice and tools of the trade by his boss Clem (Willem Dafoe) as well as the mystic Zeena (Toni Collette) and Stanton eagerly wants to get ahead. Our first introduction to Stanton is less than flattering and he soon finds himself employed at a Carnival after coming upon it by chance. Stanton Carlisle (Bradley Cooper) is a man trying to get by in late 1930s America in the new film "Nightmare Alley".
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