Back Draft



Ron Howard directs Kurt Russell, Robert De Niro, William Baldwin and an all-star cast in this exciting action-thriller depicting the nerve-shattering, life-and-death struggles of today's firefighters. An arson investigation is the focus of this white-knuckle adventure. As a child Brian McCafferty watched his firefighter father die. Years later he joins his brother, Steven in the force by becoming a rookie firefighter. There is a history of conflict between the two brothers that is heated up by working together. With this background, a series of suspicious fires are set, each made to kill a specific person. After becoming frightened at a fire, Brian pulls strings to get into an investigative office and finds that he is now not putting out the arsonist's fires, but trying to track him down.