no professional actors outside of Kirk Cameron.

I can't say I'm surprised due to a number of reasons - I'm sure the production values on Maher's film are far higher than on Kendrick's, and the Fireproof cast was populated by members of the local church. Maybe once the election dust has settled and it's no longer saturating the web I'll feel up to it.Įxpectedly, Religulous has been getting much better reviews than Fireproof. All this electioneering has my blood pressure spiking already and I don't need to see Maher's smarmy approach to belittling religion to put me over the top. I haven't seen Bill Maher's Religulous, and honestly, have no desire to do so - at least for a few months. It was written, produced and directed by Alex Kendrick, whose previous two films Facing the Giants and Flywheel (neither which I've seen) are both also Christian-centric films. As far as I know Cameron refused a paycheck for appearing in the film. It cost all of $500,000 to produce thanks to tons of volunteer efforts and community donations. Malcom and Ken Bevel as a fellow firefighter).I went and saw Fireproof this weekend, the low budget Christian film starring Kirk Cameron.

Instead she’s a publicist at a hospital who spends most of the film contemplating whether to hop into bed with one of the doctors.įor two-thirds of the movie, the filmmakers show a restraint rare in the movie-with-a-Message genre, so much so that the two most appealing characters are those nudging Caleb toward Christianity (Mr.

The screenwriters, the brothers Alex Kendrick (who also directed) and Stephen Kendrick, give the story some pull by not making Catherine into the usual neglected wallflower of a wife. The movie is about a firefighter named Caleb (Kirk Cameron) whose loveless marriage to Catherine (Erin Bethea) is headed for divorce court until Caleb’s father (Harris Malcom) talks him into trying a 40-day caring-for-marriage regimen with a Christian underpinning. “Fireproof” may not be the most profound movie ever made, but it does have its commendable elements, including that rarest of creatures on the big (or small) screen: characters with a strong, conservative Christian faith who don’t sound crazy.

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