Product Details

• Actors: Craig T. Nelson, Bonnie Bedelia, Jurgen Prochnow
• Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
• Studio: Platinum Disc
• DVD Release Date: February 8, 2005
• Run Time: 195 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• ASIN: B0007GP7LE
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #141,517 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)
• For more information about "The Fire Next Time" visit the Internet Movie Database (IMDb)

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Item Name: The Fire Next Time; Studio: Platinum Disc

Product Description

2017: the greenhouse effect and global warming take their toll as droughts floods and hurricanes wreak mass destruction in a world gone mad one family struggles to survive against all odds.. Studio: Platinum Disc Llc Release Date: 02/01/2005 Starring: Craig T Nelson Richard Farnsworth Run time: 193 minutes

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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Fire Next Time, October 31, 2010

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Mary Horsley (Richmond, Virginia USA) - See all my reviews

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I love this movie but was disappointed at the footage they removed. A favorite part for me was the bicycle vehicles in Golden, NY, but they cut so much of it. The message is still very clear: we need to take care of our earth and each other.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Decent miniseries, November 7, 2009

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J. Dykstra (Roswell, NM) - See all my reviews
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This is a show from the 1990s. As is the case with most movies that imagine the future, now, 15 years or so later, some of the things the movie imagined seem very unlikely and out of place. The 2017 of this movie is a place where there are high tech phone booths on every corner, three-wheeled electric cars and illegal immigration problems for Canada. In spite of some of these obvious misses, the movie does a somewhat decent job of suggesting the kinds of disruption and chaos that global warming could start to bring. The movie suggests hurricanes and coastal flooding, increased fire risk, shortages of water, the drying out of the Midwest, worldwide food shortages and environmental refugees, all of which are things that are thought to be possible under a warming scenario. Unfortunately the movie is somewhat uneven. It oscillates between being a movie that focuses on environmental issues to a movie that focuses on separation and family issues. At points in the movie you can hardly even tell it's supposed to be about global warming.

At the time, this mini-series was talked about as a global warming awareness event. Unfortunately, while the movie got some of the potential effects of warming right, there seems to be a theme running through the movie of the sun being a symbol for heat and generally hot temperatures being a visible symbol of the warming. For the first half of the movie, everyone is sweaty and grimy and there are a number of shots of the sun blazing in the sky. This is somewhat misleading and could potentially feed misconceptions about what global warming is.

In spite of the drawbacks, this is a decent former TV mini-series that will at least get you to think, especially in the first half. Unfortunately neither this show nor anything else from the time seems to have had a significant effect because now, 15 years later, the prospects of avoiding the kinds of scenarios envisioned in the show don't seem a lot better. In any case, if you are interested in seeing what was thought about global warming in the 1990s and if you like disaster-type shows, this might be an interesting DVD to see.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Good movie! Gets a person thinking if this will really happen!!!!, March 20, 2009

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Judy Logan (Wichita, Kansas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Fire Next Time [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I've seen this movie several times on TV; and each time I like it more and more; so I have decided to purchase it here on Amazon. Granted, a few times it is boring, but what movie isn't? I really like how the ending when they are all reunited in Canada(?) Thank You!