Chicago firefighting brothers Stephen (Kurt Russell) and Brian (William Baldwin) have been rivals since childhood. Brian, struggling to prove himself, transfers to the arson unit. There, he aids Don (Robert De Niro) in his investigation into a spate of fires involving oxygen-induced infernos called backdrafts, but when a conspiracy implicating a crooked politician (J.T. Walsh) and an arsonist (Donald Sutherland) leads Brian back to Stephen, he is forced to overcome his brotherly competitiveness in order to crack the case.
Backdraft
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Legend
OCOpen Captioned
Special Content
35mm
SFSensory Friendly
Cinema Studies
Backdraft
4K Remaster
Tickets: $11 (members), $16 (nonmembers)
"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."
"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."
This film is part of the Ron Howard Retrospective series.
