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Backdraft is an American movie released in 1991, directed by Ron Howard. Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro and Scott Glenn star. Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh and J.T. Walsh are also featured.
The story is about firefighters in Chicago on the trail of a serial arsonist.
The film received three Academy Award nominations. It also received two nominations at the first annual MTV Movie Awards.
The Japanese cooking TV show Iron Chef made extensive use of the music from this movie.
The film is the basis of an attraction at Universal Studios Theme Parks where visitors can learn how the pyrotechnic effects were created and experience some of them first hand.
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