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Death Defying Acts (2007)

★ 5.9 · 284 ratings on TMDB

Love is inescapable

Death Defying Acts poster★ 5.9

On a tour of Britain in 1926, Harry Houdini enters into a passionate affair with a psychic out to con the famous magician.

DirectorGillian Armstrong
CastAnthony O'Donnell, Billy McColl, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Guy Pearce, Leni Harper, Malcolm Shields
GenresDrama, Romance
The emergence reading

Death Defying Acts keeps every mind human — it fights its subject at zero distance. The story fights on E8/E9 of the E0–E14 reality ladder.

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Same rung, same subject

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Same subject, different rung

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