Guy Pearce, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Timothy Spall, Saoirse Ronan
| released: 2007 Sep 13 | 
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duration: 1:36:55 | 
 
 
When famous escape artist Harry Houdini (Guy Pearce) arrives in Edinburgh
and offers a $10,000 reward to anyone who can contact his mother from
beyond the grave, a beautiful but deceptive psychic (Catherine Zeta-Jones)
and her young "sidekick" daughter (Saoirse Ronan) take the challenge.
As Houdini spends time with this mysterious woman, he is beguiled by
her charms, and what begins as a con evolves into a far more complicated
and dangerous affair.
 
At 1:25:29, Saoirse Ronan
juggles 2 balls,
on and off, for nearly 30 seconds.
  
On November 5, 2015, AOL news reported the following:
  
Ronan is fazed by one thing: her inability to juggle.  Ronan doesn't
measure up, even after her turn in 2007's "Death Defying Acts."
  
"I can't juggle to save my life.  And that's sharing a lot about myself.
That's a big part of myself that I swore I would never share.  Years ago
I did a film about Harry Houdini and I played this little Scottish girl
from Edinburgh," she says.  "We were these con artists.  I had to juggle
in a scene.  I just could not.  I still can't do it."
 
 
  
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