Death Defying Acts

Death Defying Acts (2007) is a romantic drama you can watch online on iFILM, directed by Gillian Armstrong and starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Guy Pearce. Edinburgh, 1926. Harry Houdini arrives on a British tour and posts a cash prize for any medium who can channel the spirit of his late mother.

Mary McGarvie is a quick-witted street charlatan who sees the prize as an easy con. She stages the séance on nerve and guesswork, her sharp young daughter — played by a teenage Saoirse Ronan — at her side. What neither of them expects is how quickly the performance blurs into something real. Houdini, who has exposed frauds his whole career, can't decide whether Mary is the love he's been circling his whole life or just the cleverest woman to ever fool him. Shot on location in Scotland, the film wears its period setting lightly — it's really a quiet study in how deception and desire feed each other. Stream Death Defying Acts online on iFILM.