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Backdraft is an American movie released in 1991, directed by Ron Howard and written by Gregory Widen. Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro and Scott Glenn star. Donald Sutherland, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Rebecca De Mornay, Jason Gedrick and J.T. Walsh are also featured. The story is about firefighters in Chicago on the trail of a serial arsonist.

While there are not many movies devoted to firefighters, Backdraft has been criticised for some unrealistic elements, especially for depicting fire as sentient and for the firefighting tactics and improper use of safety equipment and procedures. Especially insulting was Robert De Niro's line about how sometimes a fire can only be put out by "loving it a little."

The film received three Academy Award nominations. It also received two nominations at the first annual MTV Movie Awards.

There is an exhibit at Universal Studios where you can learn about the making of the movie and experience a real one.

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The Japanese cooking TV show, Iron Chef, used Backdraft's music. 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.

A fictional chemical substance, trychtichlorate, is used by the arsonist to set the fires.

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