Death Defying Acts
DramaRomance
6/10
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|97 min
Release Date: 2007-09-13
Overview - On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
Production Companies
BBC FilmAustralian Film Finance CorporationMyriad PicturesZephyr FilmsMacGowan Films
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John Chard
4/10
Houdini Affairs of the Heart and Head. Death Defying Acts is directed by Gillian Armstrong and written by Tony Grisoni and Brian Ward. It stars Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall and Saoirse Ronan. Music is by Cezary Skubiszewski and cinematography by Haris Zambarloukos. Not a biopic of Harry Houdini, but an episode in his life, Death Defying Acts (a bum steer of a title) is luk...
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Wuchak
6/10
**_Part factual, part fictional accounting of Houdini’s final months in 1926_** The showman (Guy Pearce) visits Edinburgh, Scotland, where he meets a psychic woman and her daughter, who are out to con him (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Saoirse Ronan). Timothy Spall is on hand as Harry’s protective tour manager. "Death Defying Acts” (2007) is not a biopic of Houdini, but rather historical fiction,...
