Firestarter 2: Rekindled (TV 2002)

Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of pyrokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought. Charlie has been in hiding for nearly all her life from a ... See full summary »

Director:

Robert Iscove

Writers:

Stephen King (novel), Philip Eisner

Stars:

Marguerite Moreau, Malcolm McDowell, Dennis Hopper

1 nomination.

Cast

Cast overview, first billed only:
Marguerite Moreau	...	Charlene "Charlie" McGee
Malcolm McDowell	...	John Rainbird
Dennis Hopper	...	James Richardson
Danny Nucci	...	Vincent Sforza
Skye McCole Bartusiak	...	Young Charlie McGee
John Dennis Johnston	...	Joel Lowen
Darnell Williams	...	Gil
Ron Perkins	...	Special Agent Pruitt
Deborah Van Valkenburgh	...	Mary Conant
Dan Byrd	...	Paul
Travis Charitan	...	Cody
Scotty Cox	...	Andrew (as Scott E. Cox)
Emmett Shoemaker	...	Edward
Devon Alan	...	Max
Eric Jacobs	...	Jack

Storyline

Charlie McGee is a young woman with the unwanted and often uncontrollable gift of pyrokinesis, lighting fires by mere thought. Charlie has been in hiding for nearly all her life from a top-secret government fringe group headed by the maniacal John Rainbird, who wants to find and use Charlie as the ultimate weapon of war. Vincent is a young private investigator unwittingly sent to look for Charlie, and evenutally tries to help her escape from Rainbird, who has formed a group of young boys from other research projects -- each with different special abilities -- in a plot to take over the world.

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Plot Keywords:

boy | children | fire | pyrokinesis | dark heroine | 

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Taglines:

Little Charlie's all grown up... and setting the town on fire!

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Genres:

Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller

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Certificate:

TV-14

Details

Official Sites:

Sci-Fi Channel [us]

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Release Date:

10 March 2002 (USA)

Also Known As:

Firestarter: Part 2

Filming Locations:

Ogden, Utah, USA

Box Office

Budget:

$10,000,000 (estimated)

Company Credits

Production Co:

USA Films, Traveler's Rest Films, USA Cable Network

Technical Specs

Runtime:

168 min 180 min (4 parts) (TV) 169 min (DVD)

Sound Mix:

Stereo

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

1.78 : 1

Did You Know?

Quotes

John Rainbird: [sitting on street bench] More than I, if truth were told, / Have stood and sweated hot and cold, / And through their reins in ice and fire / Fear contended with desire. Agued once like me were they / I like them shall win my way / Lastly to the bed of mould / Where there's neither heat nor cold. But from my grave across my brow / Plays no wind of healing now, / And fire and ice within me fight / Beneath the suffocating night.

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Connections

Follows Firestarter (1984)

User Reviews

don't bother.

What the heck was this movie?? A rejected script for X-Toddlers?? That is the only thing that i kept asking myself through out the long duration of this horrible thing.

I must admit that i have never read the book, but i am a fan of the original film. This film ALL but erases the existence of it. Let's change the entire ending of a movie and make another and call it a sequel. That is exactly what has happened here. With the additions of the little village of the damned mutant children making it so far out there it was borderline comedy. The two good things out this film were the actress who played Charlie who was actually a good actress, just the wrong film for her. Danny Nucci was good as always. But they could not save this horrid thing.

Stay away from it or you will wish you were set on Fire.