Backdraft

**Backdraft** is a UK VHS release by CIC Video and Universal on 10th February 1992, 17th August 1992 and 4th October 1993 and it got re-released by 4 Front Video and Universal on 22nd May 2000.

## Description

Ron Howard directs an all-star cast in this exciting action-thriller depicting the life-and-death struggles of today's firefighters.

Stephen McCaffrey (Kurt Russell) and his younger brother Brian (William Baldwin) are two feuding siblings carrying on an heroic family tradition in the Chicago fire department, one of the toughest in the country. Hot-headed Stephen is so relentlessly committed to firefighting that he drives Brian out of active duty and into a less dangerous department.

Assisting arson investigator Donald Rimgale (Robert De Niro), Brian becomes involved in solving a puzzling series of arson attacks, each ignited by explosive phenomena known as backdrafts.

Before the smoke clears, love affairs are rekindled and lives are shattered as the McCaffrey brothers fight to resolve their differences and solve the mystery.

Co-starring Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca DeMornay and Donald Sutherland, and featuring breathtaking cinematography by Mikael Salomon, Backdraft shows you fire as you've never seen it before.

## Cast

* Kurt Russell as Stephen McCaffrey / Dennis McCaffrey
* William Baldwin as Brian McCaffrey
* Robert De Niro as Donald Rimgale
* Donald Sutherland as Ronald Bartel
* Jennifer Jason Leigh as Jennifer Vaitkus
* Scott Glenn as John Adcox
* Rebecca De Mornay as Helen McCaffrey
* Jason Gedrick as Tim Krizminski
* J. T. Walsh as Martin Swayzak

## Credits

Imagine Films Entertainment Presents

A Trilogy Entertainment Group/Brian Grazer Production

A Ron Howard Film

Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Scott Glenn, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Donald Sutherland as Ronald

Rebecca De Mornay, Jason Gedrick, J.T. Walsh, Clint Howard, Cedric Young, Tony Mockariss, Jack McGee, Mark Wheeler and Robert De Niro

Music By Hans Zimmer

Casting By Jane Jenkins, C.S.A. and Janet Hirshenson, C.S.A.

Costumes Designed By Jodie Tillen

Film Editors Daniel Hanley, Michael Hill

Production Designer Albert Brenner

Director Of Photography Mikael Salomon, A.S.C.

Associate Producer Todd Hallowell

Co-Producer Larry DeWaay

Executive Producers Brian Grazer and Raffaella De Laurentiss

Written By Gregory Widen

Produced By Richard B. Lewis, Pen Densham, John Watson

Directed By Ron Howard

Backdraft

## Opening (1993 Re-Release)

1. CIC Video Warning Screen (1991-1996)
2. The Universal Pictures Big Screen, Best Sellers Trailer From 1993 with clips of "Back to the Future", "Back to the Future Part II", "Back to the Future Part III", "Out of Africa", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Kindergarten Cop", "The Blue Brothers", "The Land Before Time", "Twins", "An American Tail", "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West" and "Backdraft".
3. The Blue Brothers Trailer
4. Presented in Dolby Surround Ident (Short Version)
5. BBFC 15 Card (1985-1997)
6. Universal Pictures Ident (1990-1997)
7. Start of Backdraft (1991)

## Closing (1993 Re-Release)

1. End of Backdraft (1991)
2. Closing Credits Film
3. CIC Video Warning Scroll (1991-1996)

## Trailers and info

### Rental 1992 Re-release

* Video Piracy Warning (CIC Video)
* CIC Video/Kentucky Fried Chicken Universal Studios Backdraft competition
* The Antagonists
* Shout
* The Hard Way

### 1993 Re-release

1. The Universal Pictures Big Screen, Best Sellers trailer from 1993 with clips of "Back to the Future", "Back to the Future Part II", "Back to the Future Part III", "Out of Africa", "E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial", "Kindergarten Cop", "The Blue Brothers", "The Land Before Time", "Twins", "An American Tail", "An American Tail: Fievel Goes West" and "Backdraft".
2. The Blue Brothers