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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.
Guy Pearce is opening up about the one film he says should have received more recognition — and why he believes it flopped. “I think Death Defying Acts,” Pearce, 57, exclusively told Us ...
Its release was preceded by the singles "Heart Beats Slow", [1] which peaked at No. 37 in Australia, [7] "Death Defying Acts" in June, "A Heartbreak" and "Grizzly Bear" in July. [3] The videos for all four songs as well as a video for "Get Home" were directed by Jessie Hill. [8]
Skubiszewski first made his mark composing the score for Jerzy Domaradzki's Lilian's Story.He has worked with many Australian directors, composing scores for Gregor Jordan's Two Hands, Tony MacNamara's The Rage in Placid Lake and Gillian Armstrong's Death Defying Acts.
Pearce portrayed pop artist Andy Warhol in Factory Girl and Harry Houdini in Death Defying Acts. He also appeared in The Road and in Bedtime Stories with Adam Sandler. [9] Pearce continued to perform in Australian films, such as The Hard Word (2002) and The Proposition (2005), written by fellow Australian Nick Cave.
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In the 2000s, Armstrong went on to direct the feature films Charlotte Gray (2001), starring Cate Blanchett, and Death Defying Acts (2008), starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce. Based on the novel by Sebastian Faulks, Charlotte Gray is another of Armstrong's films that centres around a strong female protagonist.
Riding a motorcycle off the edge of a cliff is not the only death-defying stunt Tom Cruise pulls off in the upcoming “Mission: Impossible – Dead Reckoning Part One.” A new featurette on the ...