Continuity mistake: When the firefighters go to the house of the first backdraft "victim" you see that he has gone through the windshield of his car. But when we saw him opening his front door and getting hurled away from the house he didn't land anyway near the car.
Backdraft (1991)
Plot summary
Directed by: Ron Howard
Starring: Robert De Niro, Donald Sutherland, Kurt Russell, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Scott Glenn, William Baldwin
Someone is starting fires that result in a backdraft that is devestating to the victims as well as dangerous and deadly to the firefighters fighting the fires.
As the plot unfolds it becomes more apparent that it is a firefighter who is starting them.
Two brothers, both the sons of a fireman who died a hero while in service, one an investigator investigating the fires, the other and outspoken and well respected fireman must face up as it becomes more obvious that it is the older brother, the firefighter who could be responsible...
But is it?
More mistakes in Backdraft
Ronald Bartel: The funny thing about firemen is... Night and day they are always firemen.
Question: The guy who took the picture of Brian as a kid - was he an opportunist who sold the photo to the magazine? I have a hard time imagining they would be prescient enough to know to send one of their own photographers to the scene of the fire.
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