

Death Defying Acts
Love is inescapable
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
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5.9/10
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $20M
- Box office
- $8.4M
- Language
- English
- scotland
- escape artist
- clairvoyant
- woman director
- 1920s
- houdini
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Australia, United Kingdom, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- TheatricalPG13 Sept 2007
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalPG13 Mar 2008
FranceFR
- Theatrical20 Oct 2007
GermanyDE
- Theatrical129 Feb 2008
HungaryHU
- Digital / OTT1220 Jul 2009
IrelandIE
- Digital / OTTPG8 Aug 2008
ItalyIT
- Theatrical24 Apr 2009
JapanJP
- Digital / OTTR15+29 Jul 2009
RomaniaRO
- Theatrical1213 Sept 2007
South KoreaKR
- Theatrical1527 Mar 2008
SpainES
- Theatrical71 Apr 2008
TaiwanTW
- Theatrical保護級5 Sept 2008
Frequently asked questions
Death Defying Acts was released on 13 September 2007.
Audience reviews
2- J4/10
John Chard
7/7/2014
Houdini Affairs of the Heart and Head. 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. Not a biopic of Harry Houdini, but an episode in his life, Death Defying Acts (a bum steer of a title) is lukewarm across the boa…
- W6/10
Wuchak
5/11/2025
**_Part factual, part fictional accounting of Houdini’s final months in 1926_** The showman (Guy Pearce) visits Edinburgh, Scotland, where he meets a psychic woman and her daughter, who are out to con him (Catherine Zeta-Jones and Saoirse Ronan). Timothy Spall is on hand as Harry’s protective tour manager. "Death Defying Acts” (2007) is not a biopic of Houdini, but rather historical fiction, aka ‘faction.’ Assu…
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