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Fire Next Time

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Fire Next Time
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3hrs 15min
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1993
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Synopsis: This ecological drama, set in 2017, presents a world where pollution has generated ever more unpredictable weather and rendered large chunks of the planet into disaster zones. After a hurricane destroys everything they've built for themselves, Louisiana shrimp fisherman Drew Morgan (Craig T. Nelson) and his family, including wife Suzanne (Bonnie Bedelia), flee through a series of refugee camps to upstate New York, where Drew's estranged former business partner Larry Richter (Jurgen Prochnow) -- who ... Full Synopsis
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This better-than-average TV miniseries uses global warming as the backdrop to disaster-flick spectacle, social commentary, and family melodrama. The contrast between gated utopian communities and endless competing dystopian nightmares gives The Fire Next Time an air of science fiction authority; plenty of the horrors the characters endure already occur all over the planet, just not usually to nice ... Full Review
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