With his balanced and exhaustive depiction of the events leading up to and during the 1985 standoff between the radical African-American organization MOVE and Philadelphia authorities, Jason Osder makes an impressive feature film debut. The spectacular clash claimed eleven lives and shattered a whole town, both physically and metaphorically. Let the Fire Burn is a true-to-life Wild West tale in which the protagonists are not distinguished by the color of their hats.
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With his balanced and exhaustive depiction of the events leading up to and during the 1985 standoff between the radical African-American organization MOVE and Philadelphia authorities, Jason Osder makes an impressive feature film debut. The spectacular clash claimed eleven lives and shattered a whole town, both physically and metaphorically. Let the Fire Burn is a true-to-life Wild West tale in which the protagonists are not distinguished by the color of their hats.
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