| Record Number |
852949 |
| Title |
Backdraft [videorecording]. |
| Publisher/Date |
[Sydney] : Universal Pictures [distributor], 2002. |
| ©1991. |
| Pagination etc. |
1 DVD-video (approximately 132 minutes) : sound, colour ; 12 cm. |
| Contents note |
"One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage" --Container. |
| Creation Note |
Director, Ron Howard; producers, Richard B. Lewis, Pen Densham, John Watson; script, Gregory Widen; executive producers, Brian Grazer, Raffaella DeLaurentis. |
| Performer note |
Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca DeMornay, Donald Sutherland, Robert De Niro. |
| Summary Note |
Stephen McCaffrey and his younger brother Brian are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department. Hot-headed Stephen is so relentlessly committed to firefighting that he drives Brian out of active duty and into a less dangerous department. Assisting arson investigator, Brian becomes involved in solving a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts. |
| Target audience note |
Censorship classification: M -Recommended for mature audiences 15 years and over - Medium level coarse language. |
| Language note |
In English, German, Italian, French and Spanish. Subtitles in English (Deaf and hard of hearing), Portuguese, Danish, Finnish, Polish, Dutch, Swedish, Norwegian, Czech and French. |
| Subject |
Fire extinction -- Drama |
| Fire fighters -- Drama |
| Arson -- Drama |
| Feature films. |
| Video recordings for the hearing impaired. |
| Action and adventure films. |
| Added Author |
Russell, Kurt actor. |
| Howard, Ron, 1954- director. |
| Baldwin, William, 1963- actor. |
| Glenn, Scott, 1942- actor. |
| Leigh, Jennifer Jason, 1962- actor. |
| DeMornay, Rebecca, 1963- actor. |
| Sutherland, Donald, 1935- actor. |
| De Niro, Robert actor. |
| Shelf Location |
DVD F BACK |
