Two brothers who work as firefighters together face internal conflicts, external threats, and corruption within the firefighting community, ultimately sacrificing themselves to save each other and expose the truth. Backdraft is a 1991 American English-language Action Crime motion picture starring Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Donald Sutherland and Dan Charles Zukoski. Imagine Films Entertainment in association with Trilogy Entertainment Group. were the production houses involved in the project along with executive producer(s) Richard B. Lewis, John Watson, Pen Densham and Brian Grazer. Backdraft is written by Gregory Widen and directed by Ron Howard. Universal Pictures acquired the distribution rights for the movie. Backdraft was released on 24th May 1991 and takes a screen time of 137 minutes. The Film was successful at box office. Backdraft was made on a budget of $40 million and it was a super hit at box office gross of $152 million. Cinematography was done by Mikael Salomon and editing by Daniel P. Hanley and Mike Hill. The music was composed by Hans Zimmer.
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Backdraft Reviews and Ratings
Average Review Rating : positive
Positive Review Rating : 52%
Owen Gleiberman
Backdraft has some of the raw filmmaking excitement that has been missing from Howards recent work. ( Read More )
Variety Staff
Visually, pic often is exhilarating, but its shapeless and dragged down by corny, melodramatic characters and situations. ( Read More )
Rita Kempley
And given the dramatic inertia, who cares.We just wish somebody would call 911 for boredom. ( Read More )
Roger Ebert
The movie grafts no less than three formulas onto its wonderful action scenes. ( Read More )
Heather Boerner
Seen through that lens, 1991s summer blockbuster BACKDRAFT seems schmaltzy and overly precious. ( Read More )