Profanity throughout. "F--k" frequently used. Also: "s--t," "bulls--tter," "a--wipes," "pr--k," "son of a bitch," "bitch," "asses," "damn." A kid gives his younger brother the middle finger.

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But savvy movie buffs will also recognize set pieces that may work for the film but have cliché written all over them: Brian visits Ronald in the psychiatric hospital, echoing Silence of the Lambs, which was produced the same year. Viewers may also recognize the music-video montage scenes, a la Baywatch. Unfortunately for Backdraft, those other broadcasts do it better.

If you can block out memories of Sept. 11, 2001, you'll probably still find this film overly long and cheesy -- but you might enjoy it more. Since 9/11, it's hard to imagine a movie that can stand up to the real-life heroism that New York firefighters displayed on that horrible day. Seen through that lens, 1991's summer blockbuster Backdraft seems schmaltzy and overly precious. Ron Howard's sentimental direction is buoyed by the work of some great actors, though, notably Donald Sutherland as creepy firestarter Ronald and Robert DeNiro as investigator Donald "Shadow" Rimgale. Modern lovers of the gory CSI TV franchise will also appreciate the up-close-and-personal looks at bodies burned beyond recognition and the visits to the police lab and the scene of the crime.

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This movie offers a glimpse into the lives of Chicago firefighters and the dangers they face when the sirens go off. While they are shown to be heroic, and the movie has more than its fair share of Hollywood drama and heroics, the firefighters are given a more (for the time of its release, anyway) realistic look at who they are and the culture of the firehouses, as they fight fires and save lives, but also curse, drink, smoke, get into fights.

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The opening scenes are a flashback that builds up to when the lead character as a young boy witnessed his father, a firefighter, perish in a burning building. Firemen shown on fire, in peril, badly injured or in fatal situations. Charred bodies shown in the aftermath of arson (including a body found halfway through a windshield), and in the morgue -- graphic. Some blood. One of the lead characters gets drunk at a retirement party and gets into a fistfight with his ex-wife's boyfriend; some blood. Lead character attacked by a man wielding a club.

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The lead characters are White, and some of the secondary characters are African American firefighters, and one Latinx firefighter.

Twenty years after he watched his father die fighting a fire, Brian McCaffrey (William Baldwin) returns to Chicago to finally face his demons. But despite his best bribery efforts, he ends up facing them at the very firehouse where his father worked -- and where his pain-in-the-butt older brother Stephen (Kurt Russell) now holds sway. Between the sibling rivalry, the drunken fights between Stephen and his ex-wife's new boyfriend, and erroneous news reports, Brian has to figure out whether he really has the nerve to storm into a fire and fight it (he mistakenly rescues a mannequin from a garment factory), whether he can face up to the horrible memory of his father's death, and whether he can help solve the mystery of who's systematically killing Chicago businessmen by setting up deadly "backdrafts" in their homes.

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Parents need to know that Backdraft is a 1991 drama in which William Baldwin plays a young firefighter trying to prove himself to a veteran firefighter who's also his rival and older brother. In the movie's opening flashback scenes, a young boy watches as his father, a firefighter, perishes inside a burning…

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Most of the firefighters and secondary characters smoke cigarettes. Drinking in bars. Drinking at a retirement party, leads to one of the main characters getting severely drunk and punching out his ex-wife's boyfriend, then is shown stumbling back to where he lives with the help of his brother. Cigar smoking.

Parents need to know that Backdraft is a 1991 drama in which William Baldwin plays a young firefighter trying to prove himself to a veteran firefighter who's also his rival and older brother. In the movie's opening flashback scenes, a young boy watches as his father, a firefighter, perishes inside a burning building. There are graphic depictions of charred dead bodies in the aftermath of arson -- one body shown halfway through a car windshield, and another shown in the morgue. Characters are injured, hospitalized, and die while fighting fires. One of the lead characters gets drunk and fights the boyfriend of his ex-wife in the middle of a retirement party. Beer drinking in bars. Cigar and cigarette smoking. Constant profanity, including "f--k." Characters shown having sex on top of a firetruck (no nudity, black bra shown tossed aside that later appears wrapped around a firehose). Brief male nudity of two characters in the showers (buttocks).

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Families can talk about how Brian and Stephen's sibling rivalry affects their working relationship in Backdraft. Does it help or hurt their dangerous work?

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While loyalty to family and fellow firefighters is severely tested throughout the movie, loyalty remains first and foremost in the lives of the firefighters, as they put their lives on the line for each other and for those trapped in burning buildings.

How did the violence reveal how much the firefighters put their lives on the line when they are called to put out fires? Was the violence necessary to convey this, or was it too much? Why?

Two couples have sex on top of a firetruck, though not explicitly on-screen (kissing, bra discarded that later appears wrapped around a firehose). Brief nudity, male buttocks while two characters are in the shower.

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