He has dangled by his toes over a hundred hungry alligators in Florida, been buried alive in India, and jumped from a plane wearing a straightjacket in Japan; escape artist Dean Gunnarson doesn't shy away from a challenge. Dean Gunnarson: The Making of an Escape Artist explores the Winnipeg-born entertainer's career from its beginning and describes how his friendship with teenaged cancer patient Philip Hornan led to a series of stunts culminating in a near-fatal submerged coffin act on the banks of the Red River that propelled Gunnarson to stardom.