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- 2008
- PG
- Affirm Films
- 2 h 2 m
- 2008
- PG
- Affirm Films
- 2 h 2 m
Summary At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter’s adage; never leave your partner behind. At home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules. After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never married. As the couple...
Directed By: Alex Kendrick
Written By: Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick
- 2008
- PG
- Affirm Films
- 2 h 2 m
- 2008
- PG
- Affirm Films
- 2 h 2 m
Fireproof
28
7.9
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Summary At work, inside burning buildings, Capt. Caleb Holt lives by the old firefighter’s adage; never leave your partner behind. At home, in the cooling embers of his marriage, he lives by his own rules. After seven years of marriage, Caleb and Catherine Holt have drifted so far apart that Catherine wishes she had never married. As the couple...
Directed By: Alex Kendrick
Written By: Stephen Kendrick, Alex Kendrick
Where to Watch
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
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67% Mixed
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Metascore
Generally Unfavorable
Based on 6 Critic Reviews
28
0% Positive
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
67% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
33% Negative
2 Reviews
2 Reviews
While hardly sophisticated in its approach and certainly not polished in its technical elements, the film does get its heartfelt message across with undeniable sincerity.
Then the film gets all religulous, suggesting that Caleb's devotion to healing means nothing without Jesus, and so Fireproof stops becoming relatable to us all and only to the already, or easily, indoctrinated.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 User Ratings
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78% Positive
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User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 27 User Ratings
7.9
78% Positive
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
19% Mixed
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Many were critical of actions of authors and plot the outcome, but I'm sure this film managed to convey the message they wanted - which was certainly the main target. Film is able to demonstrate exactly the reality of many couples today, showing that it is not easy to have a healthy marriage for several years. I agree regarding the issue of development of the characters, often, have been left to the background. They could be working a little more, but anything to harm as a whole. If we put the question that film was produced with a small budget, I can say I did a great job.
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The filmmakers hedge their bets by making the young marrieds agnostic at the start of the movie, in order to turn Fireproof into a manual for eternal as well as marital salvation.
Makes for fruitful soul-fishing but lousy drama.
Cameron acts like a childish jerk, even in the reconciliation phase, and the underlying reason is that he--and the movie--hates women.
This movie is beautiful, very inspiring and one of the best Christian films I have seen.
Watch it online for free: ****/watch-289-Fireproof-online-free
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Realistic film, good actors, without much sentimentality and without sexual appeal. Very consistent with the dramas of our reality and has a super yummy plot that holds the viewer until the outcome. A film with his Christian side however clearly without exaggerations and deceptions. Worth checking out. With good content not only for the couple but for the entire family. Only 10 did not give the details. Check out.
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Sherwood picture are probably one of the most beautiful success stories. They do with a 1000000$ budget what other companies struggles to do with 1000000000$. This is a must see to every husband who can't stand his wife(or vise versa.)
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This film tells how Caleb (Kirk Cameron), a firefighter chief, tried to save his marriage with Catherine (Erin Bethea) through a forty-day challenge proposed by his father, an evangelical Christian. This is just another so-called "Christian film" made by US evangelical Christians to propagandize their ideas. They are very low-budget movies loaded with nasty and incisive religious propaganda, and this film doesn't differ from them, showing how a man without faith can be a terrible husband and how he changes when he embraces Jesus, his only way to save his marriage (and his soul, an implicit and subliminal allusion). The movie says that being a Christian transforms you, that you're good if you're Christian, that you're bad if you're not a Christian, that religion brings moral values that you will not have otherwise. Unfortunately, I know many despicable people who spend their lives in churches or temples (regardless of religion) in a near heretical hypocrisy, so I've lost my innocence about it. Religion preaches moral values but being religious doesn't necessarily mean practicing those values. In fact, they're more easily apprehended in the heart of the family than on a religious temple. So the message of this film, partial and propagandistic, is at the very least too optimistic and unrealistic to be credible. It's an insult to the intelligence of any thinking man who is not fanatically religious. Either way, the suggestions about marriage and how it should be are interesting and valid for anyone, even for an atheist, a civil union or a **** marriage. But it's a film made by religious and these heresy could never be said. The actors performance is painless, the mushy drama around their marriage is boring, predictable and worthy of a soap opera... I need to say more?
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Production Company
Samuel Goldwyn Films,
Affirm Films,
Carmel Entertainment,
FortyFour Studios,
Provident Films,
Sherwood Pictures
Release Date Sep 26, 2008
Duration 2 h 2 m
Rating PG
Tagline Never Leave Your Partner Behind.
Awards
MovieGuide Awards
• 1 Win & 1 Nomination
