If you did not like Backdraft, but wanted to, then this is certainly the movie for you. Then again, I don’t think there is anyone that could watch Ladder 49 and not become completely enthralled with ...

Jack Morrison is a veteran firefighter working to rescue trapped workers at a large industrial fire. When he risks his own life to save a trapped man, he becomes trapped himself. As other firemen work ...

This dramatic film was directed by Jay Russell, and its screenplay was written by Lewis Colick. Joaquin Phoenix stars as the Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison, who is trapped inside a warehouse fire ...

Actor Tim Guinee didn't want to leave the fire service behind after filming "Ladder 49," so he took on the role of a firefighter in real life. Guinee joined his hometown Stone Ridge Volunteer Fire ...

TUCKED INTO the helmet actor Tim Guinee wore on the set of the firefighting movie “Ladder 49” was a picture of a legendary Fire Department captain who was among the 343 FDNY -heroes killed on 9/11.

It's loud. It's noisy. It's downright cacophonous. That being the case, I'm led to wonder if turning up the volume is a director's ploy to draw an audience's attention away from corny melodrama. Is ...

While Sept. 11 helped embellish the already heroic image of firefighters, "Ladder 49" doesn't owe any direct debt to such recent events. It plays, rather, like an old-fashioned, by-the-numbers drama ...

The problem with this film is that it's hardly a film, more an extended promo for the American firemen. And any advertisement stretching on for two hours will always be a bit too hard to take. Of ...

When you make a movie like “Ladder 49,” about the day-to-day lives of firemen, almost anything you do runs the risk of being exploitative. It’s hard to know the right way — or even if there is a right ...

For those hoping to see John Travolta once again occupy centrestage with grimacing glory Ladder 49 is disappointing. For once Travolta's role is so straitlaced , any ...

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