Backdraft

Release Date:

May 24, 1991

MPAA Rating:

R

Running Time:

2:17

Genre:

Action

Director:

Ron Howard

Cast:

Kurt Russell	Stephen 'Bull' McCaffrey/Dennis McCaffrey
William Baldwin	Brian McCaffrey
Robert De Niro	Donald 'Shadow' Rimgale
Donald Sutherland	Ronald Bartel
Jennifer Jason Leigh	Jennifer Vaitkus
Scott Glenn	John 'Axe' Adcox
Rebecca De Mornay	Helen McCaffrey
Jason Gedrick	Tim Krizminski
J.T. Walsh	Alderman Marty Swayzak
Tony Mockus Sr.	Chief John Fitzgerald
Cedric Young	Grindle
Jack McGee	Schmidt
Mark Wheeler	Pengelly
Clint Howard	Ricco, Pathologist
Ryan Todd	Brian, Age 7
John Duda	Stephen, Age 12

Producers:

Raffaella DeLaurentiis , Larry DeWaay , Pen Densham , Brian Grazer , Richard Barton Lewis , John Watson

Writers:

Gregory Widen

Language:

English

Related Programs:

Volcano

Frequency

Ladder 49

Chicago firefighting brothers Stephen and Brian have been rivals since childhood. Brian, struggling to prove himself, transfers to the arson unit. There he aids Don in his investigation into a spate of fires involving oxygen-induced infernos called backdrafts. But when a conspiracy implicating a crooked politician and an arsonist leads Brian back to Stephen, he is forced to overcome his brotherly competitiveness in order to crack the case.

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