![]() ![]() Meyer – a Manhattan psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who also happened to be Nicholas Meyer's father. Adrien Brody stars as the legendary escape artist Harry Houdini in a two-night miniseries that looks great, but cant overcome a narrative voiceover clogged with tough-guy cliches. Meyer's script is adapted from the 1976 book, "Houdini: A Mind in Chains: A Psychoanalytic Portrait," written by the late Bernard C. The Houdini miniseries co-starred Kristen Connolly as Bess Houdini and Evan Jones as Jim Collins. The full unedited version can be found on DVD and Blu-ray. Houdinis magical feats of strength captivated. Unfortunately, this is the condensed version that aired on HISTORY back in September 2014. This 2-part event follows the world-renowned master of escapes transformation from immigrant to superstar. "You keep digging." Another gem: When an associate says, "The writing's on the wall, Harry," Houdini replies, "No! I write the damn writing!" Who wrote this writing? Nicholas Meyer, whose past work –- including "The Seven Per Cent Solution" and the two best "Star Trek" movies, "The Wrath of Khan" and "The Voyage Home" – was reason to hope for better. The Houdini miniseries starring Adrien Brody is now streaming on Netflix. 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. Brody stars in Historys two-part miniseres Houdini airing Monday, Sept. Harry Houdini conducts an epic battle against the spiritualists whose practices he found to be false and misleading. "What do you do when you hit rock bottom?" Brody mutters in one of the endless examples. Houdini was the quintessential magician/illusionist of his time. But instead of bringing us closer to what it felt like to be the great Harry Houdini, we instead hear Brody adopt a tough-guy tone as he rattles off clichés that sound like anachronistic film noir parodies. Whether or not you enjoy "Houdini" - the four-hour, two-night miniseries starring Oscar-winner Adrien Brody as the legendary escape artist - may depend on your tolerance for a voiceover narrative clogged with lines like, "The only thing more devastating than a punch to the gut is an arrow through the heart." The History channel two-parter seems intended to tell the true-life story of the world-famous illusionist as a sort of psychodrama.
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