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Backdraft

1991

Ron Howard

Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland ...

6.0

14,896

Mystery. Action. Drama 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 ... [+]

	Author	Review
United States	Roger Ebert Chicago Sun-Times	"Never before in the movies I seen fire portrayed by such convincing, encompassing special effects. Unfortunately, they are at the service of an unworthy plot (...) Rating: ★★★ (out of 4)"	POS
United States	Gene Siskel Chicago Reader	"'Backdraft' is a spectacle worth observing; it may also generate a little more respect for firemen, everyday heroes who don`t need the movies to polish their image."	POS
United States	Variety Staff Variety	"Visually, pic often is exhilarating, but it's shapeless and dragged down by corny, melodramatic characters and situations."	NEU
United States	Owen Gleiberman Entertainment Weekly	"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."	POS
United States	Rita Kempley The Washington Post	"Backdraft is sure to do for fire what The Poseidon Adventure did for water."	NEU
United States	Janet Maslin The New York Times	"The spectacular fire sequences, which must have been hellish to film, are powerfully enveloping on screen"	POS

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