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Movie Facts

Status: Released

Runtime: 97

Budget: $20,000,000

Revenue: $3,561

Languages: fr, it, en

Webpage: -

Release Info

  • 2007-09-13
     PG

  • 2007-10-20
     -

  • 2008-02-09
     12

Plot Keywords

Alternative Titles

  • Au-delà de l'illusion
  • Houdini's Death Defying Acts
  • Death Defying Acts: Houdini's Secret
  • El último gran mago
  • El último gran mago
  • Houdini, a halál mágusa
Content Score: 100

(2007)

4.6/10 (16 votes)

Overview

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

Tagline

There is no escape.

Crew

Director: Gillian Armstrong
Writers: ,

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Cast

Catherine Zeta-Jones

Catherine Zeta-Jones
as Mary McGarvie

Guy Pearce

Guy Pearce
as Harry Houdini

Timothy Spall

Timothy Spall
as Sugarman

Saoirse Ronan

Saoirse Ronan
as Benji McGarvie

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A review by John Chard

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 lukewarm across the board. Story charts the years after the death of Houdini’s mother, where he travels to 1920s Edinburgh and falls in with Psychic Tricksters Mary (Jones) and Benji McGarvie (Ronan), a m... read the rest.

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