DETROIT -- John Travolta can't see the hand before his face, but he can feel the heat. He thinks he hears someone to his right, though it could just be a voice bouncing off a wall. He gropes in front ...

Joaquin Phoenix stars in last year's solid action hit about a firefighter whose career plays out in flashbacks while he's trapped inside a burning building. John Travolta co-stars as the mentor who ...

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 ...

An all-but-finalized deal would open the vacant Anne Arundel Medical Center for use in the movie "Ladder 49," starring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix, in late April or May. Source Courtesy of ...

Firefighter Gregory Shepherd breaks down firefighting scenes from movies and TV, including 'The King of Staten Island,' 'Ladder 49,' 'I Now Pronounce You Chuck & Larry,' 'Backdraft,' 'Mr. Deeds' and ...

Filled with gripping moments of firefighters battling flames and trying to save lives, intense drama inside the firehouse and homes and the humor of a brotherhood forged in the heat, "Ladder 49" is ...

In the opening scene, fireman Jack Morrison (Joaquin Phoenix) and other members of Ladder 49 enter a huge burning building. Conflagration has engulfed the edifice and the men search, eventually ...