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Houdini is a two-part, four-hour History Channel miniseries written by Nicholas Meyer and directed by Uli Edel. It premiered on September 1, 2014. The series stars Adrien Brody as Harry Houdini and features the life of the legendary illusionist and escape artist from poverty to worldwide fame.
- Historical Drama
Houdini: With Adrien Brody, Kristen Connolly, Evan Jones, Tim Pigott-Smith. Follow the man behind the magic as he finds fame, engages in espionage, battles spiritualists and encounters the greatest names of the era, from U.S. presidents to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Grigori Rasputin.
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- 2014-09-01
- Biography, Drama
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Sep 1, 2014 · As played by Brody, Houdini is a singularly driven prick who gets by because history dictates that he has to. The writers put cardboard obstacles in his path and tell us how great he is...
Aug 28, 2014 · History channel’s “ Houdini ” erects a cage from which even the renowned magician can’t escape: Nicholas Meyer’s misbegotten, heavy-handed, narrated-ad-nauseam script (which in terms of prominent...
Harry Houdini conducts an epic battle against the spiritualists whose practices he found to be false and misleading. As the 20th century progresses and modernity overtakes industrial age antiquity, Houdini must come to terms with his new place in a fast-changing world.
Aug 22, 2014 · The mini-series tells the entire Harry Houdini tale, from his unsuccessful start as a carnival magician to global celebrity as an escape artist to his later years wrestling with the...
This is at least the tenth biographical film in the past six decades featuring the master illusionist and escape artist Harry Houdini (1874-1926). It's a two-part mini-series made for television, based upon the 1976 book "Houdini: A Mind in Chains: A Psychoanalytic Portrait" by Bernard C. Meyer, MD. Adrien Brody plays Houdini, with Kristen ...
