Backdraft
Silently behind a door, it waits. One breath of oxygen and it explodes in a deadly rage. In that instant it can create a hero...or cover a secret.
Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters.But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.
- Director
- Ron Howard
- Worldwide
- $152M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
25 billed performers
Story overview
What It's About
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Two feuding siblings carrying on a heroic family tradition as Chicago firefighters. But when a puzzling series of arson attacks is reported, they are forced to set aside their differences to solve the mystery surrounding these crimes.
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Box Office & Release
Backdraft returned 2.0× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $75M
- Opening weekend
- —
- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $152M
- Release date
- May 24, 1991
- Runtime
- 2h 17m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
Figures from the verified production record. Fields we cannot source are left blank rather than estimated.
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