"Ladder 49" has just one aspiration behind it - to be a celebration of firefighters. This is good and bad. No movie in recent years, at least in this decade, has so convincingly conveyed what it's ...

While Sept. 11 helped embellish the already heroic image of firefighters, "Ladder 49" doesn't owe any direct debt to such recent events. It plays, rather, like an old-fashioned, by-the-numbers drama ...

This dramatic film was directed by Jay Russell, and its screenplay was written by Lewis Colick. Joaquin Phoenix stars as the Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison, who is trapped inside a warehouse fire ...

Actor Tim Guinee didn't want to leave the fire service behind after filming "Ladder 49," so he took on the role of a firefighter in real life. Guinee joined his hometown Stone Ridge Volunteer Fire ...

TUCKED INTO the helmet actor Tim Guinee wore on the set of the firefighting movie “Ladder 49” was a picture of a legendary Fire Department captain who was among the 343 FDNY -heroes killed on 9/11.

Jack Morrison is a veteran firefighter working to rescue trapped workers at a large industrial fire. When he risks his own life to save a trapped man, he becomes trapped himself. As other firemen work ...

This dramatic film was directed by Jay Russell, and its screenplay was written by Lewis Colick. Joaquin Phoenix stars as the Baltimore firefighter Jack Morrison, who is trapped inside a warehouse fire ...

When you make a movie like “Ladder 49,” about the day-to-day lives of firemen, almost anything you do runs the risk of being exploitative. It’s hard to know the right way — or even if there is a right ...

It's loud. It's noisy. It's downright cacophonous. That being the case, I'm led to wonder if turning up the volume is a director's ploy to draw an audience's attention away from corny melodrama. Is ...

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