Death Defying Acts

Death Defying Acts is a British-Australian 2007 supernatural romance film, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Guy Pearce and 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.

Death Defying Acts
Promotional movie poster
Directed byGillian Armstrong
Written byTony Grisoni
Brian Ward
Produced byChris Curling
Marian Macgowan
StarringGuy Pearce
Catherine Zeta-Jones
Timothy Spall
Saoirse Ronan
Narrated bySaoirse Ronan
CinematographyHaris Zambarloukos
Edited byNicholas Beauman
Music byCezary Skubiszewski
Production
companies
FFC Australia
BBC Films
UK Film Council
Myriad Pictures
FTO
Distributed byLionsgate (United Kingdom)
Dendy Films (Australia)
Release dates
  • 13 September 2007 (2007-09-13) (Toronto International Film Festival)
  • 10 March 2008 (2008-03-10) (Australia)
  • 8 August 2008 (2008-08-08) (United Kingdom)
Running time
97 minutes
CountriesUnited Kingdom
Australia
LanguageEnglish
Box office$8,380,329
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