2007 · drama · romance
Death Defying Acts
Directed by Gillian Armstrong1h 37m2007
On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.
Our read: Death Defying Acts (2007) reads as a neutral, measured, grounded drama · romance entry — gentle in intensity, intimate in scope, measured in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Neutral, measured, gentle drama / romance, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, measured.
- measured
- gentle
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