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Death Defying Acts
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Unrated :: Weinstein Company ::
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2008-10-28
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Death Defying Acts Summary
During Harry Houdini's tour of Britain in 1926, the master escapologist enters into a passionate affair with a Scottish psychic. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: DRAMA Rating: NR Age: 796019815512 UPC: 796019815512 Manufacturer No: 81551
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Death Defying Acts
would more aptly be titled
Houdini’s Whirlwind Romance
as it focuses less on the famed magician’s skills and more on what kind of secret lovers he may have had. In this historical drama, ravishing con-artists, Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones), and daughter, Benji (Saoirse Ronan), play two sharp girls ready to take Houdini (Guy Pearce) for a ride. Set in 1920s Scotland, the plot centers on a contest Houdini hosts in Edinburgh to find a psychic medium who can channel his deceased mother. Mary, tired of pick-pocketing to stage fake magic shows, desperately wants Houdini’s $10,000 cash prize and auditions successfully for the role of (real) medium. From there, passions flare up as they negotiate how much of their magic is sheer trickery. Director Gillian Armstrong’s (
Little Women
) rendition of Houdini’s life depicts him as a regular joe struggling to convince his pragmatic business manager, Sugarman (Timothy Spall), that magic and science are connected. Scenes in which Houdini trains for and then tests his boundaries and skills during famous theater acts, are highly entertaining and well re-created. Scenes in which McGarvie and her daughter read characters for clues to rig their paranormal hoaxes are equally well-done, and Zeta-Jones is gorgeous as a spiritualist. But when Mary and Houdini collide, their definitions of magic turn to mush through Hollywood translation, as something semi-equivocal to faith in love. This unfortunate injection of melodrama in an otherwise smart film cancels out its better parts. Do Houdini fans really want to see him, on screen, grappling with CG angels as he floats, straitjacketed, in his sealed water tank? I doubt it. Still,
Death Defying Acts
stars Houdini, which automatically makes for some fun. —
Trinie Dalton
Houdini's Death Defying Acts [WS] DVD Techincal Details
Cast:
Catherine Zeta-Jones
,
Anthony O'Donnell
,
Ralph Riach
,
Timothy Spall
Aspect Ratio:
1.66:1
Rated:
Unrated
Running Time:
97 mins
UPC:
796019815512
Binding:
DVD
Studio:
Weinstein Company
Release Date:
2008-10-28
Region Code:
1
Specs:
Color, Subtitled, Widescreen, NTSC
Language & Subtitles
English (Unknown), Spanish (Subtitled), English (Original Language),
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