Backdraft
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Backdraft is a 1991 American film directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. The film stars Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro and Scott Glenn. Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Jason Gedrick and J.T. Walsh co-star in the film. The story is about firefighters in Chicago on the trail of a serial arson. A fictional chemical substance, trychtichlorate, is used by the arsonist to set the fires.
The film received three Academy Award nominations (Sound Effects Editing, Visual Effects and Best Sound). It also received two nominations at the first annual MTV Movie Awards.
There is an attraction at Universal Studios Hollywood based on the film.
The movie tells the story of a group of Chicago firefighter at Engine 17, two of whom are brothers. Lt. Stephen "Bull" McCaffrey (Kurt Russell), the elder of the two brothers, is obsessed with beating the fires that he fights. He is always at the heart of the fire - the most dangerous place.
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- May 24, 1991
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- One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage.
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- 269715
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