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Written and directed by outrageous British filmmaker Ken Russell, Mindbender is a 1995 straight-to-video biopic about the celebrity psychic Uri Geller, known for bending spoons and performing other tricks before an audience. Ishai Golan plays Gellar, who started out in the Middle East and was introduced to America by Joe Hartman, played by Terence Stamp. As a child, Uri changes the clocks in his school classroom. As an adult, he saves the world from nuclear war. Uri Geller himself also appears in a cameo role, claiming to offer the "first-ever psychic experience on video."