Firestarter (film)

Firestarter is a 1984 American science fiction thriller film based on Stephen Kings 1980 Firestarter. The plot concerns a young girl who develops pyrokinesis and the secret government agency known as The Shop which seeks to control her. The film was directed by Mark L. Lester, and stars David Keith, Drew Barrymore, Martin Sheen and George C. Scott. The film was shot in and around Wilmington, Chimney Rock, and Lake Lure, North Carolina.

Andy McGee David Keith met his future wife, Vicky Tomlinson Heather Locklear, in college while they were earning money by participating in an experiment in which they were given a dose of a lowgrade hallucinogen called LOT6. The experiment grants Vicky the ability to read minds Andy can make people do and believe what he wants, but the effort gives him nosebleeds the novel revealing them to be pinprick hemorrhages. Andy and Vicky went on to get married, and they now have a nineyearold daughter named Charlene Charlie McGee Drew Barrymore, who can start fires with very little effort.Andy comes home from work one day to find that Vicky has been murdered and Charlie abducted the family had already suspected that the government agency that sponsored the experiment, the Department of Scientific Intelligence aka The Shop, was checking on them. The government wants Charlie to harness her powerful ability as a weapon. Andy rescues Charlie from abduction by agents of The Shop by making the agents blind and for the next year, they are on the run. ........

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