Backdraft (1991)

6.4	Rating (477 ratings)
6.7	IMDB rating

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Directed by

Ron Howard

Starring (View all)

Kurt Russell
Stephen McCaffrey / Dennis McCaffrey

William Baldwin
Brian McCaffrey

Robert De Niro
Donald Rimgale

Donald Sutherland
Ronald Bartel

Jennifer Jason Leigh
Jennifer Vaitkus

Scott Glenn
John Adcox

Rebecca De Mornay
Helen McCaffrey

Jason Gedrick
Tim Krizminski

Written by

Gregory Widen
(written by)

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11 years ago at May 25 9:32

Uber

2 votes

Every young boy going up has a fantasy of becoming astronauts, firefighters, police officers, Olympic athletes, etc.
I personally wanted to be an astronaut but fireman was a close second and when I first saw Backdraft I was completely enamored. And even after growing up and picking a better and more interesting career path I still find Backdraft an excellent movie and brings back great memo... read more

An average movie

4 years, 10 months ago at Jul 22 19:28

johanlefourbe

2 votes

I already saw this movie but since it was a while back and since I had it on DVD, I was quite eager to check it out again. I have noticed that, even though there are countless movies about cops, there are somehow not so many movies about firefighters and this movie must be by far the most famous one about this subject. It is easy to understand why as the firefighting scenes were just so damned imp... read more

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Two Chicago firefighter brothers who don't get along have to work together while a dangerous arsonist is on the loose.

Release date: 24 May 1991
UPC: 025192004124

Tags: Drama (19), Action (19), Thriller (13), Firefighter (9), 1991 (8), Suspense (6), Fire (6), Rescue (6), Shower (6), Pyromaniac (6), Male Nudity (5), Danger (5), Explosion (5), Brothers (5), Firemen (5), Pyromania (5), Psycho (4), Axe (4), Helmet (4), Arson (4)

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