Two feuding brothers carry on a heroic family tradition in the Chicago Fire Department. Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled and lives are shattered as the brothers fight to resolve their differences and solve a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts.
cast
Kurt Russell as Stephen 'Bull' McCaffrey/Dennis McCaffrey
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Alderman Marty Swayzak: You see that glow in the corner of your eye. It's your career dissapation light and it's going into overtime.
Lt. Steven McCaffrey: If anyone's lights are about to go out, believe me they are yours.
In what might already be one of the "hottest" films of the summer, BACKDRAFT does for firefighters what GOODFELLAS did for gangsters -- it elevates its protagonists to a level bordering on the heroic. Only in this case, the firefighters in Ron Howard's latest film are truly deserving of that praise.
