Firestarter
Never play with fire.
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction.Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain.
- Director
- Keith Thomas
- Worldwide
- $15M
Who's in it
Cast
The billed ensemble, with character names. Open any performer for their Nutevio filmography.
Story overview
What It's About
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For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
Firestarter returned 1.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $12M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
- —
- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $15M
- Release date
- May 12, 2022
- Runtime
- 1h 34m
- MPAA rating
- R
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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