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Don’t Try This at Home! (1990) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1990 · 47 mins · English
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- Directed by
- John Moffitt
- Starring
- Penn Jillette, Teller, Jane Curtin, Victoria Jackson, Carol Perkins
Penn and Teller experiment with mirrors, teach 900 audience members to make a handkerchief vanish, play with acrylic boxes, turn marshmallows into weapons, perform fire‑eating, become King of Animal Traps, generate bees, have Jane Curtin do a needle‑, dental‑floss‑ and pierced‑ear illusion, and finish by crushing Teller beneath a concrete‑filled truck.
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