Death Defying Acts (2007)

Directed by

Gillian Armstrong

Genre

drama film, romance film, thriller film, historical film

Country

Australia, United Kingdom

Runtime

1h 37m

Rated

PG

Rating

5.9 of 10 from 283 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

In the 1920s, famous escapologist Harry Houdini meets a woman who claims to be a psychic. She tries to trick him while they develop a romantic connection.

romanticmelancholicsuspensefulhistoricalslow-burnmysteriousintimateatmospheric

What happens

Death Defying Acts is a 2007 supernatural romance film, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian-American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s. It was screened in a special presentation at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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