Death Defying Acts (DVD)

Description: Genre: Drama / Theatrical Release: 2008 / Parental Guidance / Director: Gillian Anderson / Actors: Catherine Zeta ... more

Death Defying Acts (DVD) ... Jones, Saoirse Ronan, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall ... / DVD released 2009-03-31 at Lions Gate Home Entertainment / Features of the DVD: PAL

Newest Review: ... with an imagined meeting between him and a local music hall medium Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta Jones). MacGarvie is a ... more

... beautiful woman abandoned by her husband and struggling to support her young daughter Benji (Saoirse Ronan), who makes ends meet through a mixture of thievery and conning the gullible. When we first meet Mary, she has a scam in place to research the recently dead so that she can appear as an uncannily accurate medium at the local music hall; this is a time when spiritualism was incredibly popular, and audiences are easy to persuade of her clairvoyant talents. It is a fun start to the film, as we are in on the joke and ...more

Price Comparison for Death Defying Acts (DVD)

	Death Defying Acts [DVD] [2008] Release Date: 2009 - 05 - 18, Rating Parental Guidance, Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45	£ 6.58	Free! within 24 hours

Death Defying Acts [DVD] [2008]
Release Date: 2009 - 05 - 18, Rating Parental Guidance,

Last Update 25.12.2009 05:45

£ 6.58

Free!

within 24 hours

Read Reviews for Death Defying Acts (DVD)

Death Defying Acts (DVD): You'll Like It, Not A Lot, But You'll Like It (1109 words)
by - written on 12/08/09 (Very useful, 94 readings)
Rating:

"Death Defying Acts" (2008) - FILM ONLY REVIEW Certificate: PG (UK, Ireland, USA) Running Time: 97 minutes The success, in quick succession, of magical-themed films "The Illusionist" and "The Prestige" seemed to establish that there is an audience for a specific type of period drama these days - namely one that revolves around entertainingly gimmicky suspense plots and handsome conjurors rather than the more common drawing room settings of historical drama. Following hot on the heels of these two films was "Death Defying Acts", Australian director Gillian Armstrong's film about Houdini that seemed on ... Read the complete review

Death Defying Acts lacks magic (493 words)
by - written on 17/01/09 (Very useful, 684 readings)
Rating:

The success of The Prestige and The Illusionist sure set the trend and standard of magician films. And well frankly, Death Defying Acts, trails far behind. =Summary= Set in 1926, the infamous illusionist, Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) is on a world tour. He offers a grand reward of $10,000 to any psychic who can tell him his mother's last words. It is an attempt to get rid of the phoney psychics. On his world tour, he reaches Edinburgh where he meets the ravishingly beautiful con psychic, Mary McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones) who hosts an act with her daughter, Benji (Saoirse Ronan). They had approached Houdini, determined to win the prize. In the ... Read the complete review

Read 2 reviews

Write a review