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Denis Leary Praises 'Burn' As More Action-Packed Than Some Hollywood Movies

December 06, 2012, 5:32 AM


Actor Denis Leary is pretty darn impressed with the Detroit documentary "Burn," which opens Friday at the AMC Livonia 20 and AMC Forum 30 in Sterling Heights.

Julie Hinds writes that Leary, who came on board as an executive producer for the film on problems plaguing the Detroit Fire Department, watched it in New York.

He tells Hinds:

I saw it twice with the audience here in New York. I saw the premiere night (at the Tribeca Film Festival), which was really astonishing. ... The audience shot to their feet and gave it a standing ovation. For any movie, and God knows I've made enough of them, good and bad, that kind of startled me. 

Then immediately after, when we introduced the (Detroit) firefighters and we did the Q-and-A, as soon as the Q-and-A ended, this crowd, let's say it was a thousand people, about half of them flooded the stage area. It took us about two hours to get out of the room because people were running up and hugging everybody.

Then I saw it at the second screening. . . . Watching (Tribeca Film Festival co-founder) Robert De Niro come up on the red carpet after he saw the movie and start hugging these guys and taking pictures of them, he must have spent 15 or 20 minutes just hanging out with these guys.

Then he goes on to compare it to his TV show "Rescue Me," which is about a New York City firehouse. 

Not to make a comparison to "Rescue Me," because I think it's a much stronger piece than "Rescue Me" was because "Rescue Me" was fiction, but it does have the real elements of that fake show. It's very funny, it's very heartwarming, it's incredibly dangerous. Some of the stuff, the action in the movie, it supersedes Hollywood action movies.


Read more:  Detroit Free Press


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