Backdraft

Name: Backdraft
Director: Ron Howard
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Released: 1991

Ron Howard • 137 min • 1991

DramaThrillerActionCrime

“Silently behind a door, it waits. One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage. In that instant it can create a hero...or cover a secret.”

Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn

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Synopsis

Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.