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Backfire (1988)
Directed by Gilbert Cates
“Before the night is over... someone will be rich, someone will be dead, someone will be avenged.”
Thriller, Drama, Mystery · 1h 33m
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.
Cast
Karen Allen
Keith Carradine
Jeff Fahey
Bernie Casey
Dean Paul Martin
Virginia Capers
Philip Sterling
Dinah Manoff
Frances Flanagan
Antony Holland
Dwight Koss
Crew
- Director
- Gilbert Cates
- Writer
- Rebecca Reynolds, Larry Brand
- Director of Photography
- Tak Fujimoto
- Original Music Composer
- David Shire
- Editor
- Melvin Shapiro
- Producer
- Danton Rissner
Details
- Release date
- 1988-06-21
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- Genres
- Thriller, Drama, Mystery
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada, United States of America
- Production
- ITC Entertainment