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`Ladder 49'.
Byline: Roger Moore
"Ladder 49" is a solid, old-fashioned fire-fighting melodrama. It's a string of sentimental snapshots of a firefighter's life told in flashback as he and his crew fight for his life in a towering inferno where he has been trapped.
Every cliche in every movie or TV show about firemen is recycled here, but often to pleasant effect. A comfortable leading-man turn by Joaquin Phoenix, a professional supporting performance by John Travolta and a knowing way with the fires themselves don't make for cutting-edge drama. But it makes a nice counter-balance to the edgier, more corrosive R-rated fireman's soap opera "Rescue Me" now showing on ...
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