In theatres now! Chet and I went with another couple, and I cried through several scenes. It was a dramatic improvement over their 2nd movie Facing the Giants – which I loved for its clean heart-warming tale of triumph. (Sherwood Pictures astonished 2006 movie goers in that remarkably good story for a low budget movie.) For Fall 2008 release #3, Fireproof, they poured more money into production and cinematography, and added starring actor, Kirk Cameron this time. It’s is worth seeing, and taking people you know with you.
Excerpt from EW:
“Not every failing marriage results in a blowout quite as exciting as the ones in Shoot the Moon, The War of the Roses, or Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, so there’s something slightly refreshing about the banality of the marital conflicts in Fireproof, a low-budget evangelical movie jam-packed with heartfelt tips for men about how to save your marriage. Steps like: Order flowers for your estranged wife — and good ones, not a bargain bouquet. Make her dinner and light some candles. Accept Christ as your personal savior. And do the dishes once in a while, will you? (In no particular order.)…
“Here, [Kirk] Cameron plays a tantrum-throwing firefighter who is, as he says, a hero to everyone but his wife (Erin Bethea), a neglected ice princess who’s tired of never knowing whether hubby will be home for dinner. When she pitches a breakup, he’s all too happy to oblige, until his ministerial-sounding dad proposes a 40-day program to regrow their love. This woo-back scheme takes longer to succeed than you’d expect in a Christian anti-divorce tract, and forestalling the couple’s inevitable reconciliation proves both surprisingly realistic and (over a two-hour running time) enervating. Some of the tenser domestic moments will hit home with battle-scarred marrieds of any religious stripe, and the couple’s problems are candid by evangelical feature standards, although they hardly rate high on the secular dramaturgy scale: He’s got an Internet porn habit, and she’s enjoying an unconsummated flirtation with a doctor at work….”
Excerpt From Hannah Goodwyn’s Review, CBN.com Producer:
“This is one movie critic who highly recommends everyone see Fireproof. Marrieds may learn valuable lessons from it, as all the singles out there will too. Also, kids will enjoy it and understand a little something about love and God’s part in our lives.”
The home page is http://www.fireproofmymarriage.com/.
