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Release Date: 1991

Cast: Kurt Russell, Robert De Niro, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Tony Mockus Sr., Rebecca De Mornay, J. T. Walsh, Jason Gedrick, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Categories: Movies, Detective Fiction, Action/Adventure, Drama Film, Mystery, Crime Fiction, Thriller, Detective, Disaster, Crime Thriller, Action Thrillers, Action

Backdraft is a 1991 action thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, and Robert De Niro. Jason Gedrick and J. T. Walsh co-star in the film. The story is about firefighters in Chicago on the trail of a serial arsonist who sets fires with a fictional chemical substance, trychtichlorate. The film grossed $77,868,585 in its domestic run and $74,500,000 from foreign markets, making it the highest grossing film ever made about firefighters. Its total... MORE

Backdraft is a 1991 action thriller film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland, and Robert De Niro. Jason Gedrick and J. T. Walsh co-star in the film. The story is about firefighters in Chicago on the trail of a serial arsonist who sets fires with a fictional chemical substance, trychtichlorate. The film grossed $77,868,585 in its domestic run and $74,500,000 from foreign markets, making it the highest grossing film ever made about firefighters. Its total worldwide gross is $152,368,585. The film tells the story of a group of Chicago firefighters at Engine 17, two of whom are brothers. Lt. Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey (Kurt Russell), the elder, is obsessed with beating the fires that he fights. He is always at the most dangerous part of a conflagration. Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin), Stephen's brother, has labored under his brother's shadow all his life. He returns to firefighting after a number of other career attempts falter, though Stephen has doubts that Brian is fit to be a firefighter. As a child, Brian witnessed the death of their father, LESS