Death Defying Acts Details

2008

Celebrated director Gillian Armstrong (MY BRILLIANT CAREER, LITTLE WOMEN) helms this film about Harry Houdini's romance with a con woman. In his attempts to contact his dead mother, the magician (Guy Pearce) meets a beautiful psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who isn't all she appears. Read more

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Death Defying Acts

Celebrated director Gillian Armstrong (MY BRILLIANT CAREER, LITTLE WOMEN) helms this film about Harry Houdini's romance with a con woman. In his attempts to contact his dead mother, the magician (Guy Pearce) meets a beautiful psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who isn't all she appears.

Starring	Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan, Jack Bailey, Aaron Brown, MacKay Crawford, James Fiddy, Martin Fisher, Tim Frost
Director	Gillian Armstrong
Studio	LIONS GATE HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Run time	DVD: 1 hr 37 mins Watch now: 1 hr 36 mins
Certificate	DVD: , Watch Online:
Genres	Drama
Language	DVD: English Watch Online: English
Released	DVD: 18 May 2009 Watch now: 10 Jul 2009 Production year: 2008
Watch now	£3.49
Format	DVD

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  Never more than mildly distracting, this wayward drama of romantic and psychological intrigue from the director of... read more on Time Out

  • Dave Calhoun, 
  • Time Out
  • Posted 04 Nov 2008

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• 18 out of 18 people found this review helpful

  

  Extremely flimsy storyline!

  I Thought I might be in for a treat with this film, seeing as Pearce and Zeta Jones are in it.But Pearce was simply awful as Houdini and Zeta Jones wasn't at all impressive as the psychic con woman.The plot was weak and unconvincing, and made for very tedious viewing.

  • • A customer from SW London
    • Posted 21 May 2009 06:11

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  Extremely flimsy storyline!

  I Thought I might be in for a treat with this film, seeing as Pearce and Zeta Jones are in it.But Pearce was simply awful as Houdini and Zeta Jones wasn't at all impressive as the psychic con woman.The plot was weak and unconvincing, and made for very tedious viewing.

  • • A customer from SW London
    • Posted 21 May 2009 06:11

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  Celebrated director Gillian Armstrong (MY BRILLIANT CAREER, LITTLE WOMEN) helms this film about Harry Houdini's romance with a con woman. In his attempts to contact his dead mother, the magician (Guy ...