Squadra 49

Titolo originale: Ladder 49
Regia: Jay Russell |
Anno: 2004
Origine: United States of America |
Generi: Dramma Azione Thriller
Tag: rescue | hero | fire | disaster | firefighting | ledge | practical joke | firefighter |
Cast: Joaquin Phoenix | John Travolta | Jacinda Barrett | Robert Patrick | Morris Chestnut | Billy Burke | Balthazar Getty | Tim Guinee | Kevin Chapman | Jay Hernandez | Kevin Daniels | Steve Maye | Robert Lewis | Brooke Hamlin | Yvonne Erickson |

Jack Morrison, pompiere della Squadra 49, si trova in difficoltà durante un incendio: un pavimento è crollato e ora si trova da solo, ferito, in qualche luogo di un edificio invaso dalle fiamme. In questo momento Jack, convinto di essere vicino alla morte, ripercorre la sua vita, fin dal momento in cui entrò a far parte degli "eroi del fuoco": gli incendi, le amicizie, gli amori.

Approfondimenti

At 53:49 one of the team asks Jack if he's afraid of heights. In fact, in real life when filming beg [...] D
Jacinda Barrett (playing Linda Morrison, wife of the lead), is the daughter of a 33-year career fire [...] D
At the beginning of the film, the Third Alarm assignment to the large warehouse fire was given the l [...] D
Stephen Lang was initially a top candidate for the supporting role of Captain, he was in the midst o [...] D
Looney's Pub is an actual Baltimore watering hole, located in the Canton neighborhood. It has become [...] D
Despite the fact that this was filmed in the standard spherical format, "Filmed in Panavision" is li [...] D
The interior burn scenes were shot in Brooklyn MD in a warehouse on Chesapeake Ave. The hydraulics t [...] D
The real Fire Chief, William Goodwin, can be seen in some of the scenes in the movie. He can be seen [...] D
Mark Yant (Lt. Yant) is an actual firefighter with the Baltimore City Fire Department and personally [...] D
Joaquin Phoenix was nearly seriously burned in the scene where the factory floor collapses. If you s [...] D
The original script, written before the terrorist attacks on the USA of 11 September 2001, set the e [...] D
Italian censorship visa # 98679 delivered on 4 February 2005. D
There's a deleted scene where after jack is done dropping the kids off at school, he comes home to s [...] D
Martin O'Malley: the then-Mayor of Baltimore plays himself. D
More than 2,000 real-life firefighters showed up at casting in Baltimore, some from as far away as N [...] D
The Seagrave fire truck was made in Clintonville, Wisconsin. This company also made the truck seen i [...] D
Every fire scene in the film depicts an actual firefighting incident somewhere in the USA. The scene [...] D
As part of a preparation for the movie, Joaquin Phoenix trained for a month at a fire academy and sp [...] D
The filming of the big warehouse scene caused something of a panic in Baltimore. The fire was visibl [...] D
The firefighters Joaquin Phoenix trained with nicknamed him "Hollywood". Only after Phoenix earned t [...] D
Firefighter Jack Morrison was born on 22 April 1971 and died 18 May 2003, according to his funeral p [...] D
Robert Patrick (Lenny Richter) later played Joaquin Phoenix' father in Quando l'amore brucia l'anima [...] D
Costume designer Renee Ehrlich Kalfus designed rubber air tanks as a substitute for the real 30 poun [...] D
The scene in which John Travolta talks to Joaquin Phoenix while drinking liquor was improvised by Tr [...] D
On the first day of training for the film Joaquin Phoenix was the only one to show up in firemen gea [...] D