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Death Defying Acts is a Australien film of genre Drama directed by Gillian Armstrong released in USA on 13 september 2007 with Guy Pearce
Death Defying Acts (2007)
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Add to a movie listDeath Defying Acts is a 2007 British-Australian supernatural romance film, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Guy Pearce & 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.
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In 1926, 13 years after his mother's death, illusionist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) has begun debunking mystics, psychics and others who claim to have paranormal powers. He offers US$10,000 to anyone who can quote his mother's dying words to him.Actors
Guy Pearce
(Harry Houdini)
Catherine Zeta-Jones
(Mary McGarvie)
Saoirse Ronan
(Benji McGarvie)
Timothy Spall
(Sugarman)
Leni Harper
(Leith Romeo's wife)
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