![]() They make love and spend the night together before Houdini leaves for a performance in Montreal.įollowing Houdini's arrival in Canada, a "Red-Haired Prankster" abruptly punches him in the stomach, fatally rupturing his appendix. However, he visits the small cottage Mary and Benji share and confirms his feelings for her. Mary becomes disgruntled, feeling Houdini does not love her as she believed. Thus, he was unable to comfort her in her moment of death, and doesn't know her final words. (Whether her fit is genuine or staged is not specified.) When a note written to confirm the veracity of the experiment is shown to be blank, Houdini reveals to the press the "eternal shame" he feels because he wasn't able to reach his mother before she died. Houdini says, "I'm here, Mama," and begins crying next to Benji. She utters the words of the Kaddish, addresses Houdini as "Ehrich" (his real given name), and asks (in a mix of German and German-accented English) where he is. When she has a crisis of conscience and attempts to leave, Benji begins seizing on the ground. Mary, wearing Houdini's mother's wedding dress, performs the heavily-publicized act surrounded by a crowd of reporters. ![]() Sugarman ( Timothy Spall), eventually tells Mary and Benji the truth: Houdini, busy doing a show, was unable to visit his mother on her deathbed, and is racked with guilt. While initially suspicious and hostile, Houdini's protective manager, Mr. She also has distressing dreams about being trapped in an underwater tank, and an angel-like figure with red hair. However, Benji starts feeling isolated as her mother and the magician begin a relationship. Mary and Benji charm Houdini, spending time with him out of the public eye. Mary has a music hall psychic act that pulls in the public: Benji surreptitiously gathers information on members of the audience, which Mary uses to fake contact with their deceased loved ones. Impoverished and uneducated Scottish con artist Mary McGarvie ( Catherine Zeta-Jones) and her daughter, Benji ( Saoirse Ronan), set their sights on Houdini's reward when he visits Edinburgh on tour. He offers $10,000 to anyone who can quote his mother's dying words to him. ![]() In 1926, 13 years after his mother's death, illusionist Harry Houdini ( Guy Pearce) has begun debunking mystics, psychics and others who claim to have paranormal powers. It was screened in a special presentation at the 2007 Toronto International Film Festival. It concerns an episode in the life of Hungarian- American escapologist Harry Houdini at the height of his career in the 1920s. Death Defying Acts is a 2007 supernatural romance film, directed by Gillian Armstrong, and starring Guy Pearce and Catherine Zeta-Jones.
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