Death Defying Acts (PG)
- Consumer Advice: Contains mild language, violence, sex references and spiritualism theme
- Run time: 1 hour 36 mins
- Genre: Drama
- Release date: 8th August 2008
- Starring: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, Timothy Spall
- Directed by: Gillian Armstrong
- Distributor: Lions Gate UK
Plot Synopsis
When famous escape artist Harry Houdini arrives in Edinburgh and offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can contact his mother from beyond the grave, a beautiful but deceptive psychic and her young ‘sidekick’ daughter take the challenge.
As Houdini spends time with this mysterious woman, he is beguiled by her charms, and what begins as a con evolves into a far more complicated and dangerous affair.