BACKDRAFT (1991)

 

Directed by: Ron Howard

Starring: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro, Jason Gedrick, J.T. Walsh, Cedric Young, Jack McGee, Clint Howard, David Crosby, John Duda, Ryan Todd

137 minutes

(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, intense action sequences)

PLOT:

Brian McCaffrey's father's a fireman and he was there, as a child, when his father died. When he grew up, he tried to be a fireman but quit and left town and for a few years tried other jobs. He would eventually return and try to be fireman again. However, he finds himself working under his brother Stephen whom he doesn't exactly have a good relationship with. When Brian gets his picture in the paper and is lauded as a hero when in fact it was a mistake, a politician offers him a job working under the department's arson investigator, Donald Rimgale. It seems that Rimgale is working some unusual fires wherein someone is killed. Brian initially refuses but when he has too many confrontations with Stephen, he takes the job. And he gets a lesson on what it means to be a fireman.

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