Revealing mistake: When Charlie sets the mens clothes on fire, burning gel is clearly visible on their clothes. (00:38:30)
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 beginning of the film we see Andy make the agents who killed his wife go blind with his mind. Why then didn't he do the same to John Rainbird at the end when they were in the barn?
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Answer: Everything happened too fast for him to react, his powers were barely working, controlling only Captain Hollister. If he was at full power he could have controlled everyone.