Death Defying Acts

Death Defying Acts
Promotional movie poster
Directed byGillian Armstrong[1]
Written byTony Grisoni[1]
Brian Ward[1]
Produced byChris Curling[1]
Marian Macgowan[1]
StarringGuy Pearce[1]
Catherine Zeta-Jones[1]
Timothy Spall
Saoirse Ronan[1]
Narrated bySaoirse Ronan
CinematographyHaris Zambarloukos
Edited byNicholas Beauman
Music byCezary Skubiszewski
Production
companies
Distributed byLionsgate UK (United Kingdom)[2]
Dendy Films
Becker Entertainment (Australia)[2]
Third Rail Releasing (United States)
Myriad Picures (Overseas)
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

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.

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Cast and Crew". Myriad Pictures. Archived from the original on 24 August 2007.
  2. ^ a b "Death Defying Acts Grosses". Box Office Mojo. Retrieved 19 December 2022.