Gillian Armstrong's tony "what if" tale, from a screenplay by Tony Grisoni and Brian Ward, sets up camp alongside A STUDY IN TERROR (1965), TIME AFTER TIME (1979), RAGTIME (1981)
et al at the intersection of oddball historical fact and esoteric speculative fiction.
Edinburgh, 1926: Mother-daughter con artists Mary and Benji McGarvie (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Soairse Ronan) eke out a hardscrabble existence by means of a vaudeville spiritualist act whose local popularity rests primarily on the revealing costume Mary dons to play exotic "Princess Kali." Mary has trained her pre-teen daughter well -- Benji revels in the thrill of the con with the instincti...
Released:
2007
Rated:
NR
Length:
100 mins