Posted on 01/27/2009 2:19:40 PM PST by Between the Lines
The most popular independent film of 2008 releases on DVD today.
Fireproof, the movie produced by Sherwood Baptist Church about a firefighter in a struggling marriage, was made for $500,000. So far, it has made more than $30 million at the box office. The film was recently honored as "Best Feature Film" at the 2009 San Antonio Independent Christian Film Festival, and was runner-up for the "Best of Festival" award.
In Fireproof, Kirk Cameron plays the role of Captain Caleb Holt, who finds himself in a rocky marriage on the verge of divorce. That is when Caleb's father challenges his son to commit to a 40-day experiment known as "The Love Dare."
Cameron says the release of the movie on DVD will allow more lives to be touched by its clear gospel message.
"It's a great gift to give to somebody else. I think all of us know someone who is struggling in their marriage, people who are contemplating divorce or going through one," he notes. "You can talk to someone all you want, but if you can follow that up with a movie where they can see what it looks like when a man really devotes himself to loving his wife, that can turn the course of everything."
Sherwood Baptist Church has made a name for itself by producing other movies such as Facing the Giants and Flywheel.
Firefighters have a 90% divorce rate.
A win for the good guys.
I’m going through the work book called “Love Dare.”
Even though my husband is a non-believer, it is making all the difference in the world in our relationship.
Thanks to the movie, I have started to understand my part in my troubled marriage and I’m actively working on changing it.
Hmmm! I might have to check this out. My husband would probably call something like that “crap”, but the last few days he’s been doing the sweetest things. He called me on the way home from an event he was at just to say he missed me. When I told him our son hurt his thumb and where we were going to be in the next hour, he came by just to make sure everything was okay. When he grumbled about driving to his brother’s last night and I told him I could go with him, he sounded happy.
We’ve been married for 25 years and have raised five children. We sort-of devolved into constant bickering and disrespect. This book and the movie are reminding me of the reason I married my man. I love him so much - enough to let my own ego go. I am truly blessed.
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>> Good movie but if they really wanted to drive the point home the wife should have been an ugly scag instead of the hottie that played the part. <<
Why? Because men only drift away from their wives when their wives are ugly? Or because being attracted to beauty magically disappears when a guy gets married? It’d actually make less sense because if she were merely beautiful on the inside, it might even seem to some people that he had gotten the knack of loving someone for their insides before he had selected his wife.
... but, yeah, there is something to the notion that a “Christian” movie is using sex appeal to attract an audience. Watching British TV is sorta interesting to me, because even though the stories are sometimes drenched with sex, you’re far more likely to find actors and actresses who aren’t picked because they’re sexy. Hollywood sorta requires a suspension of disbelief that everyone just happens to be hot, and yet no-one else around them notices that.
but it seems kinda strange to attack a rare movie with something better to say than “look at my hoo-hoos!” for that point, unless it really undermines credibility.
I am going to the movie right now but it better be better than that horrible movie American Carol that was praised on this site. lol. That movie sucked A$$!!!!! If this movie sucks that is the last time I will take Free Republic members word on movies. lol.
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