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Firestarter is a american film of genre Drama directed by Mark L. Lester released in USA on 11 may 1984 with Drew Barrymore
Firestarter (1984)
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Add to a movie listFirestarter is a 1984 American science fiction thriller film based on Stephen King's 1980 Firestarter. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the secret government agency known as The Shop which seeks to control her. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Martin Sheen and George C. Scott. The film was shot in and around Wilmington, Chimney Rock, and Lake Lure, North Carolina.
A miniseries follow-up to the film, entitled Rekindled, was released in 2002 on the Sci-Fi Channel.
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Andy McGee (David Keith) met his future wife, Vicky Tomlinson (Heather Locklear), in college while they were earning money by participating in an experiment in which they were given a dose of a low-grade hallucinogen called LOT-6. The experiment grants Vicky the ability to read minds; Andy can make people do and believe what he wants, but the effort gives him nosebleeds (the novel revealing them to be "pinprick" hemorrhages). Andy and Vicky went on to get married, and they now have a nine-year-old daughter named Charlene "Charlie" McGee (Drew Barrymore), who can start fires with very little effort.Actors
Drew Barrymore
(Charlie McGee)
David Keith
(Andrew McGee)
George C. Scott
(John Rainbird)
Freddie Jones
(Dr. Joseph Wanless)
Heather Locklear
(Vicky McGee)
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