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Houdini

  • Película de TV
  • 1998
  • Unrated
  • 1h 34min
PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
5,6/10
555
TU PUNTUACIÓN
Johnathon Schaech in Houdini (1998)
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Añade un argumento en tu idiomaThe life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.The life and times of escape artist/magician Harry Houdini.

  • Dirección
    • Pen Densham
  • Guión
    • Pen Densham
  • Reparto principal
    • Johnathon Schaech
    • Stacy Edwards
    • Paul Sorvino
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  • PUNTUACIÓN EN IMDb
    5,6/10
    555
    TU PUNTUACIÓN
    • Dirección
      • Pen Densham
    • Guión
      • Pen Densham
    • Reparto principal
      • Johnathon Schaech
      • Stacy Edwards
      • Paul Sorvino
    • 12Reseñas de usuarios
    • 1Reseña de críticos
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    • Ganó 1 premio Primetime Emmy
      • 1 premio y 4 nominaciones en total

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    Johnathon Schaech
    Johnathon Schaech
    • Harry Houdini
    Stacy Edwards
    Stacy Edwards
    • Bess Houdini
    Paul Sorvino
    Paul Sorvino
    • Blackburn
    Rhea Perlman
    Rhea Perlman
    • Esther
    David Warner
    David Warner
    • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    Mark Ruffalo
    Mark Ruffalo
    • Theo
    Grace Zabriskie
    Grace Zabriskie
    • Mrs. Weiss
    Ron Perlman
    Ron Perlman
    • Booking Agent
    Karl Makinen
    Karl Makinen
    • Jim Collins
    Judy Geeson
    Judy Geeson
    • Lady Doyle
    Frank McRae
    Frank McRae
    • Usher
    George Segal
    George Segal
    • Beck
    Emile Hirsch
    Emile Hirsch
    • Young Houdini
    Curt Lowens
    Curt Lowens
    • Samuel Weiss
    Jack McGee
    Jack McGee
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    Jack Knight
    Jack Knight
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    7cmovies-2

    Appealing romance-oriented Houdini biography

    In this 1998 tv biography of Houdini, Johnathon Schaech passionately, and incidentally attractively, stars in the title role. "Houdini" is the perspective of his life by his wife, Bessie Houdini, 10 years after his death during a publicized "last seance," through which she hopes to communicate with him. It is an emotional, love-stricken wife's memories of her obsessed, but loving, late husband. As such, this movie is not a detailed documentary of his life, but an emotionally, romantic reminiscing of the life of the man. As a love-story, Houdini has effectively worked its magic.

    It is filled with much admiration, sentiment, and emotional angst as expected from a loving, but emotionally-conflicted widow at the time of her husband's death. Bessie's portrayal seems focused on her mounting discomfort and tension over the course of decades of their marriage due to her late husband's obsessesive life's work to entertain with death-defying feats and his driven attempts to unmask spiritual charlatans as he attempts to communicate with his late mother.

    "Houdini" does little to educate us on the many details and exploits of the late master magician, as I had originally expected. I realized, in hindsight, that this interpretation of Houdini's life makes no attempt to provide a significant and detailed retelling of his life's obsessions, but provides just enough information to provide a background to the relationships with the significant women in his life, primarily with his wife and secondly with his mother.

    Compared to two other Houdini biographies I remembered from watching on tv many years ago (namely, 1953 or 1957 "Houdini" starring Tony Curtis and 1976 "The Great Houdini" starring Paul Michael Glaser) I find it a more passionate portrayal of the great illusionist and escape artist and offers greater emotional depths that the other two films did not provide; in those portrayals, they attempt to pack in as much information as possible, but unfortunately, some erroneous info. as well. "Houdini" fortunately debunks a popular myth that he did died on stage immediately after failing to escape during an act; in reality, he had died days after his last performance in a hospital, on Halloween of 1926.

    Pen Densham, director, writer, & executive producer, turned out an interesting and entertaining & romantic biography. Johnathon Schaech gives a newly alluring and passionate dimension to Houdini, and possibly the most multi-dimensional role, as well, he has yet portrayed. Stacy Edwards sympathetically portrays the worriedly tormented, alcoholic, at times shrewish, but loving wife. Other supporting cast members, Paul Sorvino as Blackburn (radio show host), Rhea Perlman as Esther (spiritualist), George Segal as Martin Beck (Houdini's manager), Mark Ruffalo as Theo (Houdini's brother), and Grace Zabriskie as Cecelia Weiss (Houdini's, a.k.a. Erich Weiss', mother) turned in from suitable to quite good performances, particularly for a tv film.
    lads

    Don't bury Houdini, bury this movie.

    The biggest trick the writer/directer pulls on us is to hang this fantasy on one of the century's great showbusiness characters. Houdini, the short, wiry-haired immigrant, who spell-bound audiences with the intensity of his eyes and his haunting intimation of his'powers'; angry, petulant, vain and childish, the man puppy-loved his mother till the day he died, indeed, adolescent is perhaps the word to explain his emotional range; but so thrilling, so charismatic was he, audiences would sit electrified, staring at the theatre curtain for an hour, two hours, while behind it, Houdini was struggling manacles, boxes, milk cans... So far away from any attempt at showing us anything about the real man, and with Jonathon Schaech's bland performance not holding the film together, the writer then doesn't even seem to enjoy the world of vaudeville and illusion very much, but spends more time on the seances and the soap-opera domestics. I'm not angry at this movie because I'm a purist who believes Houdini's life is sacrosanct, but that the man and his life are so fascinating, and so full of episodes revealing and suspenseful, that a fictional version of the story can only fail by comparison.
    escalad89

    Awesome Movie But Not Accurate!

    I give this movie a 9 out of 10 for accuracy. The movie was not accurate but it was an awesome entertainment film. If you watch this movie like a movie and not a biography you'll love it. If you watch it the other way around you'll hate it. It was nothing more than a fictional story that had great romance, death defying escapes and personal screw ups with his brother, mother, and wife that ended terrificly. I would encourage anybody that likes magic, escape acts, and romance in a movie to watch it. Houdinit is a movie that I have watched several time and would watch again. I love the song "Rosebell" that happens to play all throughout the movie.
    7auntyeri

    So-So

    I'll be honest- I only sat to watch this movie because I ADORE Jonathan Schaech so I would've been fine with whatever came on the screen. Fortunately, it was an entertaining story even as the previous reviewer mentioned it did feel very rushed. I at least learned a little bit about his illusions.
    3Erewhon

    When will they tell Houdini's story accurately?

    When Tony Curtis played Harry Houdini in the 1953 George Pal movie, the fact that it wasn't historically accurate wasn't of serious concern, and the movie is entertaining for what it is.

    The TV movie THE GREAT HOUDINIS was a hasty little film of no particular interest; it's hardly memorable. But by the time 1998 rolled around, the opportunity existed to tell an accurate version of Houdini's life -- and Pen Densham not only wildly blows this, he made a movie that's actually insulting to Houdini's memory, which wasn't true of the earlier versions.

    The movie falsifies every relationship it depicts; Houdini's brother wasn't a whining ingrate, Houdini's wife Bess was steadfast and loyal, Houdini knew Sir Arthur Conan Doyle for many years, not for the single lunchtime meeting shown in the movie.

    But the insulting aspect is the element of spiritualism; Houdini spent years debunking it, and NOT just because mediums couldn't put him in touch with his mother. For the movie to show that survival after death is REAL is a betrayal of one of the main aspects of Houdini's life.

    And they also treat his career all wrong. Where was the Handcuff King? Where was the magician who created gigantic illusions, like walking through a wall or making an elephant disappear? Like the George Pal version, this one also invents a lot of malarkey involving the Chinese Water Torture.

    Houdini was a very interesting and colorful performer, and he deserves a reasonably accurate biography instead of more claptrap like this.

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    • Fecha de lanzamiento
      • 6 de diciembre de 1998 (Estados Unidos)
    • País de origen
      • Estados Unidos
    • Sitio oficial
      • Photos, Bios & Filmography
    • Idioma
      • Inglés
    • Títulos en diferentes países
      • Believe
    • Localizaciones del rodaje
      • Laramie Street, Warner Brothers Burbank Studios - 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, Estados Unidos(demolished in May 2003 and replaced by Warner Village)
    • Empresa productora
      • Trilogy Entertainment Group
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      • Stereo
    • Relación de aspecto
      • 1.33 : 1

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