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Backfire

Name: Backfire
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Released: 1988-06-21
Duration: 93 min
Rating: 4.929

★ 4,9 /10 (14 Votes)

1988 EN 93 min

Overview

Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.

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21/06/1988

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Before the night is over... someone will be rich, someone will be dead, someone will be avenged.

Genres

Thriller Drama Mystery

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

93 min

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Karen Allen

Mara McAndrew

Keith Carradine

Reed

Jeff Fahey

Donnie McAndrew

Bernie Casey

Clinton James

Dean Paul Martin

Jake

Virginia Capers

Maxine

Philip Sterling

Dr. Creason

Dinah Manoff

Jill

Frances Flanagan

Claire

Antony Holland

Judge Hardin

Dwight Koss

Deputy 'Buzz'

No photo

Gordon McIntosh

Big George

Wendy Van Riesen

Alice

Eric Schneider

Dr. Cooper

Enid Saunders

Aunt Elizabeth

Jay Brazeau

Junior

Lesley Ewen

Dispatcher

Dwight McFee

Searcher #1

Kim Kondrashoff

Searcher #2

No photo

Brian Linds

Bob

Robert Metcalfe

Deputy #2

Tom McBeath

Man in Bar

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"Backfire" is an exceedingly strong film from the very beginning and it easily leads the viewer astray on many occasions, especially after Mara is forced into the position where she must return home with Donny following his presumably failed suicide attempt - he has stipulated in some legal paperwork she will have power of attorney should he ever become incapacitated - and she must subsequently contend with the intrusive interference of Donny's sister Jill. This development narrows and sharpens the focus of the entire film and the true architect of everything which has been happening neatly ha…

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