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Backdraft (1991) [R]

Release Date:
May 24, 1991

Original Title:
Backdraft

Alternate Titles:
Cortina de Fogo
Kymata fotias
Malkodet Esh
バックドラフト
バックドラフト：1991
烈火雄心

Genres:
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller

Production Companies:
Imagine Entertainment
Trilogy Entertainment Group
Universal Pictures

Production Countries:
United States of America

Ratings / Certifications:
AU: M  DE: 16  DK: 15  ES: 16  FI: K-16  FR: U|18  GB: 15  GR: 15  HU: 18  IE: 15  NL: 12  NO: 12  PL: 16  PT: M/12  RO: 15  SE: 11|15  US: R 

Runtime: 137

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.

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Firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey battle each other over past slights while trying to stop an arsonist with a diabolical agenda from torching Chicago.

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ADR Editor:
Vivien Hillgrove Gilliam
Marilyn McCoppen
Rob Fruchtman

ADR Mixer:
Ed Golya

Additional Second Assistant Camera:
Mollie S. Mallinger

Art Direction:
Carol Winstead Wood

Assistant Art Director:
Gregory A. Weimerskirch

Assistant Camera:
Robert Hill

Assistant Costume Designer:
Denise Wingate

Assistant Editor:
Guy Barresi

Assistant Location Manager:
Stephen Andrzejewski

Assistant Production Coordinator:
Louise C. Larson

Associate Producer:
Todd Hallowell

Best Boy Grip:
Bill Barr

Boom Operator:
Jeffrey A. Williams

Camera Operator:
Robert L. Blatman

Carpenter:
Lawrence Hammer

Casting:
Janet Hirshenson
Jane Jenkins

Casting Associate:
Jacqueline King

Chef:
Pierre Remy

Chief Lighting Technician:
Dwight Campbell

Choreographer:
Monica Devereux

Co-Producer:
Larry DeWaay

Color Timer:
David Orr

Colorist:
Tom Rovak

Conductor:
Shirley Walker

Construction Buyer:
Michael D. Gianneschi

Construction Coordinator:
Steve A. Hagberg

Construction Foreman:
Richard Bryan Douglas

Costume Design:
Jodie Lynn Tillen

Costume Illustrator:
Haleen K. Holt

Costume Supervisor:
John Casey

Craft Service:
Raymond Bulinski

Dialect Coach:
W. Earl Brown

Dialogue Editor:
Sara Bolder
Michael Silvers

Director:
Ron Howard

Director of Photography:
Mikael Salomon

Dolly Grip:
Chris Freres

Driver:
Todd Dickison

Editor:
Daniel P. Hanley
Mike Hill

Electrician:
Rob Doherty

Executive In Charge Of Production:
Jim Morris

Executive Producer:
Raffaella De Laurentiis
Brian Grazer

Extras Casting Assistant:
Joan Philo

First Assistant Camera:
Josh Bleibtreu

First Assistant Director:
Jack Gallagher

First Assistant Editor:
Roger Tweten

Foley Artist:
Dennie Thorpe
Marnie Moore

Foley Editor:
Sandina Bailo-Lape
Diana Pellegrini
Mary Helen Leasman

Foley Recordist:
Christopher Boyes

Gaffer:
Alphonse Blumenthal

General Manager:
Scott Ross

Generator Operator:
Eugene F. Crededio

Greensman:
Steve Homa

Hairstylist:
Ilona Herman

Key Grip:
Dick Dova
John S. Robertson

Key Hair Stylist:
Linda Rizzuto

Leadman:
David Conaghan

Lighting Technician:
Todd Braden

Loader:
George Dougherty

Location Assistant:
Betsy Horning

Location Manager:
Michael J. Malone

Location Scout:
Larissa Supplitt

Makeup Artist:
Dennis Liddiard

Matte Painter:
Mark Sullivan

Music Coordinator:
Celest Ray

Music Supervisor:
Becky Mancuso-Winding

Negative Cutter:
Louis Rivera

Orchestrator:
Shirley Walker

Original Music Composer:
Hans Zimmer

Painter:
Anthony Joseph Fatigato

Post Production Supervisor:
Andrew Golov

Producer:
Richard Barton Lewis
Pen Densham
John Watson

Production Accountant:
Cheryl A. Stone

Production Assistant:
Paul Andresen

Production Coordinator:
Alecia LaRue

Production Design:
Albert Brenner

Production Illustrator:
Peter Ramsey

Production Office Assistant:
Shari Lynn Himes

Production Secretary:
Wileen Dragovan

Property Master:
Dennis J. Parrish

Prosthetic Makeup Artist:
Lance Anderson

Pyrotechnic Supervisor:
Robert Finley Jr.

Pyrotechnician:
Reuben Goldberg

Rotoscoping Artist:
Tom Bertino

Scoring Mixer:
Jay Rifkin

Script Supervisor:
Sioux Richards

Seamstress:
Jane Blank

Second Assistant Camera:
Joe Carroll

Second Second Assistant Director:
Jeff Okabayashi

Second Unit Director:
Todd Hallowell

Set Costumer:
Gloria Coffey-Sharrieff

Set Decoration:
Garrett Lewis

Set Designer:
Gary Baugh

Set Dresser:
Gary Isbell

Sign Painter:
Robert E. Knight

Sound Designer:
Gary Rydstrom

Sound Engineer:
Dennis Leonard

Sound Mixer:
Curt Frisk

Sound Re-Recording Mixer:
Gary Rydstrom
Gary Summers
Randy Thom

Special Effects Technician:
William L. Allen Sr.

Stand In:
John Burros

Standby Painter:
Alan Broadbent

Steadicam Operator:
Gregory Lundsgaard

Still Photographer:
Phillip V. Caruso

Storyboard:
Mark Moore

Stunt Coordinator:
Walter Scott

Stunt Double:
John Casino

Stunts:
Mike Johnson
Corey Michael Eubanks
William Baldwin
Norman Howell
Terry Leonard
Tony Brubaker

Supervising Sound Editor:
Richard Hymns

Swing:
Walter J. Piers

Technical Advisor:
William Cosgrove

Title Designer:
Wayne Fitzgerald

Transportation Co-Captain:
Todd Dickison

Transportation Coordinator:
Calvin Chin

Unit Production Manager:
Larry DeWaay

Unit Publicist:
Andrew Lipschultz

Visual Effects Art Director:
Paul Huston

Visual Effects Camera:
Martin Rosenberg

Visual Effects Coordinator:
Anne Calanchini

Visual Effects Producer:
Suella Kennedy

Visual Effects Supervisor:
Scott Farrar

Writer:
Gregory Widen

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