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   Critics consensus Pretty but dull, with unconvincing turns from Zeta-Jones and Pearce. If you want a period magician movie, seek out The Prestige or The Illusionist instead. More reviews on Rotten Tomatoes

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   Is Death Defying Acts a good movie?

   • Death Defying Acts is a hugely enjoyable, impressively directed drama with superb performances and an emotionally engaging script. Terrific final scene too. Highly recommended. Any magic is instantly dispelled by the dead hand of a tirelessly pouting Zeta-Jones, whose slap boasts more layers than her talent. It's all a touch undercooked and dull.

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   Where can I buy Death Defying Acts?

   • Rent Death Defying Acts on Prime Video, Vudu, or buy it on Prime Video, Vudu. Upon arriving in Edinburgh, Scotland for a series of mind-boggling performances, master illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) offers an impressive cash reward to any supposed psychic who can accurately tell him his late mother's exact last words.

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   Is Death Defying Acts based on a true story?

   • Sign in to vote. Gillian Armstrong's 'Death Defying Acts' is somewhat of a letdown. It tells the fictional story of a poor but beautiful psychic-wannabe and Houdini through her daughter's point of view. One must be warned that this film is fictional and thus, Pearce's Houdini does not bear much resemblance to the real one.

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   Death Defying Acts is a hugely enjoyable, impressively directed drama with superb performances and an emotionally engaging script. Terrific final scene too. Highly recommended.

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   Mar 13, 2008 · Death Defying Acts: Directed by Gillian Armstrong. With Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan. On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con him.

   • 5.8/10 (10K)
   • Genre: Drama, History, Romance

   • Director: Gillian Armstrong
   • Release Date: 2008-03-13

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   Jul 2, 2008 · Movie Reviews. Death Defying Acts. Gillian Armstrong's "Death Defying Acts" is a tale of illusion and self-delusion in which the great magician Harry Houdini becomes...

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   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.

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   Jul 11, 2008 · Screen Music Awards, Australia. • 1 Win & 1 Nomination. It is 1926, and Harry Houdini is the most famous performer in the world. Audiences flock to watch him perform his amazing stunts. But the man behind the legend is a tortured soul, having been unable to hear his mother’s dying words.

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   When Harry Houdini comes to Edinburgh, will he escape with his heart? asks this pretty period piece that is more froth than substance. It's 1926 and the world-renowned escapologist (Guy Pearce, looking irresistibly buff these days) has lost his mum and promised $10,000 to anyone one who proves 'scientifically' they have communicated with her from beyond the grave.