Backdraft (1991) (original) (raw)
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Original title
Backdraft
Year
1991
Running time
136 min.
Country
United States
Director
Screenwriter
Cast
Music
Cinematography
Producer
Genre
Mystery. Action. Drama | Serial Killers. Disaster Film. Fires / Blazes. Firefighters
Synopsis
Brian McCaffrey's father's a fireman and he was there, as a child, when his father died. When he grew 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 Ringale 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.
Awards
1991: 3 Nominations for Oscar: Best Sound, Sound Effects, Visual Effects
1991: Nominated for BAFTA: Best Visual Effects
Critics' reviews
- "Fire, as this movie makes clear, is nothing if not photogenic, and Howard has done a beautiful job of conjuring both its danger and its deceptive, primal beauty."
- "Backdraft is sure to do for fire what The Poseidon Adventure did for water."
- "The spectacular fire sequences, which must have been hellish to film, are powerfully enveloping on screen"
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