
Firestarter
2022 · Movie · R · 94 min · ★ 5.5
For more than a decade, parents Andy and Vicky have been on the run, desperate to hide their daughter Charlie from a shadowy federal agency that wants to harness her unprecedented gift for creating fire into a weapon of mass destruction. Andy has taught Charlie how to defuse her power, which is triggered by anger or pain. But as Charlie turns 11, the fire becomes harder and harder to control. After an incident reveals the family's location, a mysterious operative is deployed to hunt down the family and seize Charlie once and for all. Charlie has other plans.
Based on Firestarter
Also known as Charlie
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Streaming on Netflix and Starz.
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Details
- Years
- 2022
- Release date
- 2022-05-12
- Language
- English
- Rated
- R
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Max quality
- UHD
- TMDB rating
- 5.5/10 (812 votes)
- Budget
- $12,000,000
Themes
- fire
- based on novel or book
- telepathy
- coming of age
- secret government organization
- psychic power
- psychic
- female magician
- supernatural power
- psychic force
- lighthearted
- pyrokinesis
Cast & crew

Ryan Kiera Armstrong
as Charlie McGee

Zac Efron
as Andy McGee

Sydney Lemmon
as Vicky Tomlinson-McGee

Kurtwood Smith
as Dr. Joseph Wanless

Michael Greyeyes
as John Rainbird

Gloria Reuben
as Captain Jane Hollister

John Beasley
as Irv Manders

Tina Jung
as Ms. Gardner

Hannan Younis
as Darla Gurney

Gavin MacIver-Wright
as Gavin
Directed by Keith Thomas