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Certificate PG

Cast Guy Pearce Catherine Zeta-Jones Timothy Spall Saoirse Ronan

Directors Gillian Armstrong

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Running Time 96 minutes

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Plot
Edinburgh, 1926. Mary McGarvie (Zeta-Jones) scrapes a living posing as a psychic with the help of her young daughter Benji (Ronan). When escapologist Harry Houdini (Pearce) arrives in town, Mary accepts his challenge to prove her abilities by proclaiming his mother’s dying words. She tries to guess them while growing closer to Houdini.

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