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6 December 1998 (USA) moreTagline:
He made a life out of cheating deathAwards:
Won Primetime Emmy. Another 4 nominations moreNewsDesk:
Opening This Week: Dot-com days, period magicians, Eddie (sigh) Murphy(From IFC. 15 July 2008, 4:59 PM, PDT)
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"Believe"... in what exactly? moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Johnathon Schaech | ... | Harry Houdini | |
| Stacy Edwards | ... | Bess Houdini | |
| Paul Sorvino | ... | Blackburn | |
| Rhea Perlman | ... | Esther | |
| David Warner | ... | Sir Arthur Conan Doyle | |
| Mark Ruffalo | ... | Theo | |
| Grace Zabriskie | ... | Mrs. Weiss | |
| Ron Perlman | ... | Booking Agent | |
| Karl Makinen | ... | Jim Collins | |
| Judy Geeson | ... | Lady Doyle | |
| Frank McRae | ... | Usher | |
| George Segal | ... | Beck | |
| Emile Hirsch | ... | Young Houdini | |
| Curt Lowens | ... | Samuel Weiss | |
| Jack McGee | ... | Street Vendor |
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This is a TV movie covering the career, life and afterlife of the illusionist Harry Houdini. It is a romanticized skeletal treatment, covering the basics of the man (raised in poverty, self taught magician, life long mother issues, medium debunker) without any real depth or showing anything new. It is a well done enough production, recreating some of Houdini's daring feats, and the acting is decent (and Jonathon Schaech certainly looks fit enough to pull off Houdini's escapes and high tolerance for pain) but ultimately it is a frame without a portrait, non revealing of the Ehrich Weiss behind the Harry Houdini.
Favorite Line: "I fell in love with Ehrich Weiss; I put up with Harry Houdini."
Worth a rent if you have a mildly curious about Houdini itch to scratch and an hour and a half free.