Continuity mistake: When Charlie sets the bath full of water on fire, the bits of burning wood scattered around the bath change position greatly between shots. (01:15:20)
Firestarter (1984)
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Directed by: Mark L. Lester
Starring: Drew Barrymore, George C. Scott, David Keith, Heather Locklear, Freddie Jones
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Firestarter is a 1984 Sci-Fi horror film about evil experiments by an uncaring faction of government officials, whose latest victims include a man and his little daughter, Charlie. She, born with abilities starting with pyrokinesis, is to be used by this faction as a weapon. OF COURSE, they lie about keeping her father alive, despite him becoming a Pusher aka telepath. All heck breaks loose as Charlie goes quickly from scared and lonely child to Dark Phoenix mode and kills the lot of them in this revenge story. Like Carrie and other Stephen King heroines, she burns down the evildoers and then exposes the few that's left. Burn, Baby, burn.
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Irv Manders: You men are tresspassin. Show me a warrant or get off my land.
Agent: We don't need a warrant.
Irv Manders: You do unless I woke up in Russia this morning.
Question: At the end of the movie why does Charlie go to live with the older couple on the farm?
Answer: Charlie had nowhere else to go and trusted no-one. The Manders had previously taken in Charlie and her father, were kind, and, knowing the truth, did not exploit them and tried to protect them. Charlie needs a home and knows they will care for her.
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