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Death Defying Acts
Opened July 11, 2008 | Runtime:1 hr. 37 min.
PG
Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) has an affair with a Scottish con artist (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who claims she knows the final words Houdini's mother spoke on her deathbed.
Cast: Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan, Malcolm Shields
Director: Gillian Armstrong
Genres: Docudrama, Drama

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"What the film loses in momentum as the romance takes over, it gains in sex appeal as its two attractive actors make their own kind of magic." Los Angeles Times
- Gary Goldstein
"...never very engaging, let alone convincing." Variety
- Dennis Harvey

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