Fireproof (2008) on Netflix

PG20081h 58mDrama Romance

Fire captain Caleb Holt tells his crew never to leave a partner behind. His wife Catherine wants a divorce, and his father gives him a 40-day challenge called the Love Dare.

Netflix4.1/5
IMDb6.5/1025,770 votes
Rotten Tomatoes38%

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Plot summary

Caleb Holt is a fire captain in Albany, Georgia, and his wife Catherine is a hospital administrator. Their marriage has dissolved into constant arguing: Caleb wants an expensive boat, Catherine needs to pay for medical equipment for her ailing mother, and she handles the household bills and duties alone. Catherine asks for a divorce, and Caleb agrees. His fellow firefighter Michael Simmons and his father, John Holt, urge him to hold off, and John gives him the Love Dare, a 40-day challenge in which a spouse changes how he treats his partner. Caleb starts it without telling Catherine. She, meanwhile, has been flirting with Dr. Gavin Keller at the hospital where she works.

Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Fireproof (2008)

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The film's cast and crew were made up of 1,200 volunteers, alongside a professional film crew of only eight people who worked below their usual rate.
In the week before its release, advance ticket sales for the film made up 40 percent of all Fandango sales nationwide.
Made on a shoestring budget, the film went on to earn more than triple the domestic gross of its predecessor, Facing the Giants, and became the highest-grossing independent film of 2008.
The real Albany Fire Department lent the production its actual fire station, trucks and some of its own personnel for filming.
Rather than buying TV spots or billboards, the studio marketed the film almost entirely by screening it early for pastors and church groups.