This Firestarter is a real slow burn, and despite some fine performances the first hour of the film is a drag. Kurtwood Smith shows up in a single-scene cameo as the doctor who ran the original experiments.Īs the family takes it to the road, they come across kindly farmer Irv Manders ( John Beasley), who takes them in for a night and promises to drive them to Boston… after a small push by Andy.

The latest incident is enough for word to get out, and Captain Hollister ( Gloria Reuben) calls the vicious John Rainbird ( Michael Greyeyes), a former subject in the mysterious experiments, into action to hunt the family down. In one of Firestarter’s striking early scenes, a newborn Charlie incinerates her crib later, when she’s teased in gym class, she creates a fiery explosion in a bathroom stall. To make matters worse, the parents have passed down a form of their powers to their daughter, who is now struggling to come to terms with them. He and Vicky have a young daughter, Charlie ( Ryan Kiera Armstrong) and the family is on the run from the mysterious forces behind the experiments who continue to hunt them down. Ten years later, Andy is a therapist who uses his “push” abilities to convince his patients to quit smoking. Zac Efron and Sydney Lemmon star as Andy and Vicky McGee, who took part in a shady college experiment that gave them telekinetic abilities, thinly sketched out over Firestarter’s opening credits.

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