Nightmare Alley
Summary: A grifter working his way up from low-ranking carnival worker to lauded psychic medium matches wits with a psychologist bent on exposing him.
Release Date: December 17, 2021
Director:
Guillermo del Toro
Runtime: 2 h 30 min
MPAA: R
Language: English
Movie budget: $ 60,000,000
Domestic: $ 11,338,107
International: $ 28,291,088
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