Desc: Desperate Acts of Magic: Directed by Tammy Caplan, Joe Tyler Gold. With Joe Tyler Gold, Valerie Dillman, Jonathan Levit, Sascha Alexander. A magician competes in an international magic competition where he goes head to head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with. This film shows great magic performed by a cast of professional magicians. Like a great musical where the songs and the story are seamlessly intertwined, Desperate Acts of Magic does the same, mixing story and magic as one.