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Clip Interview Abbie Cornish. Video Bradley Cooper and Robert De Niro. Photos Top cast Edit. Anna Friel Melissa as Melissa. He then recovers his mental abilities and kills the remaining henchmen. After a year, Eddie has retained his wealth and has also published a book. He is now running to become a United States Senate. Van Loon offers Eddie a supply of the drug in exchange for Eddie assisting his ambitions of becoming the US President.

Eddie shares with Van Loom that he is off the drug but has retained all his abilities without having any side effects. By this ending and the events that take place before them, one can assume that Eddie has found a way of retaining the abilities. The movie goes a full circle and shows the ups and downs of taking the drug.

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Facing unemployment and his girlfriend's rejection, writer Eddie Morra Bradley Cooper is sure that he has no future.

That all changes when an old friend gives him a drug that produces enhanced mental acuity. Stoked on the untested chemical, Eddie rises to the top of the financial world and attracts the attention of a tycoon Robert De Niro who intends to use him to make a fortune.

But terrible side-effects and a dwindling supply threaten to collapse Eddie's house of cards. Neil Burger. Leslie Dixon. Mar 18, wide. Jul 19, Relativity Media. Bradley Cooper Eddie Morra. Abbie Cornish Lindy. Anna Friel Melissa. Andrew Howard Gennady. Johnny Whitworth Vernon. Tomas Arana Man in Tan Coat. Eddie meets with Melissa, who informs him that she too had been on NZT, and that when she attempted to stop taking it she experienced a severe mental and physical rebound effect.

Gennady later catches Eddie and demands the money be paid back with interest immediately. He then discovers and ingests Eddie's NZT, after which he begins using Eddie as his source for the drug.

Desperate for a pill after Gennady takes his last dose on hand, he asks Lindy to retrieve his stash from her apartment. While bringing the pills to Eddie, she notices the man in the trench coat following her. She calls Eddie for help and he encourages her to take one of the pills, which empowers her to escape. Lindy says she cannot be with him while he is on the drug because it makes him a different person.

Eddie experiments with NZT and learns to control his dosage, sleep schedule, and food intake to prevent side effects. He hires a laboratory in an attempt to reverse engineer NZT, an attorney to keep the police from investigating Vernon's death, and two bodyguards to protect him from Gennady, who is threatening him to obtain more NZT On the day of the merger, Atwood's wife informs Van Loon that Atwood has fallen into a coma.

While Eddie participates in a police lineup, his attorney steals Eddie's whole supply of NZT from his jacket. Soon afterward, Eddie enters withdrawal, and hurries home after Van Loon questions him about Atwood's coma. Gennady breaks into Eddie's apartment, demanding more NZT, but Eddie kills him and his henchmen and escapes. Eddie meets with the man in the trench coat, surmising that Atwood had employed the man to locate more NZT Once Atwood dies, they recover Eddie's stash from his attorney.

A year later, Eddie has retained his wealth, published a book, and is running for the United States Senate.